Muhammad ibn al-Hasan narrated to us: Yazid ibn Mawhib narrated to us; Amr ibn al-Harith informed me that Bukayr ibn Abdullah ibn al-Ashajj narrated to him that Yazid ibn Abi Ubayd, the freed slave of Salamah ibn al-Akwa, narrated to him that he heard Salamah ibn al-Akwa say: … and he mentioned it. He said: “No one narrated it from Salamah except Yazid, and no one narrated it from him except Bukayr; Amr alone narrated it.”

I say: He is trustworthy and among the narrators of the two Sahihs, as are those above him in the chain. Yazid ibn Mawhib is Yazid ibn Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn Mawhib al-Hamdani al-Ramli. He is trustworthy, and his biography appears in al-Tahdhib. Muhammad ibn al-Hasan is Ibn Qutaybah al-Asqalani. He too is trustworthy, and his biography appears in Tarikh Ibn Asakir. Thus, the chain is authentic. Al-Haythami, following al-Mundhiri, likewise considered it strong. He said in Majma al-Zawa'id (8/73): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat and al-Kabir in a similar wording. The chain of al-Awsat is good, whereas the chain of al-Kabir includes Ibn Lahi'ah, who is weak.” Al-Mundhiri said (3/287): “Al-Tabarani narrated it with a good chain.”

2650 — “He is not one of us who practices sorcery, or has sorcery practiced for him; who practices soothsaying, or has it practiced for him; or who practices augury, or has it practiced for him.”

Recorded by al-Bazzar in his Musnad (p. 169—its supplementary reports) and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (4/393), through Zam'ah ibn Salih, from Salamah ibn Wahram, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Bazzar said: “We know of it only through this route, with this chain; and Zam'ah is weak.”