“I said”—the speaker is Ibn Ḥajar—“This ḥadīth was reported by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī through the narration of ʿAbd al-Jalīl with this very chain; therefore there is no grounds for claiming they overlooked it. – Ibn Ḥajar.”

The mistake is that this remark does not belong to the present ḥadīth at all; rather, it pertains to the ḥadīth that follows it in al-Majmaʿ. None of the three compilers of the Sunan just mentioned transmitted the current report, nor does ʿAbd al-Jalīl appear in its chain. He occurs in the isnād of the other ḥadīth—the one narrated from Abū Bakrah, may Allah be pleased with him. The copyist or typesetter therefore linked the note to the first ḥadīth when it actually belongs to the second, and this escaped the attention of Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir—may Allah have mercy on him—for after referring to this ḥadīth and quoting al-Haythamī’s earlier statement about its grading, he wrote:

“Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar appended a marginal note to it in his own handwriting …,”

and then he reproduced the very words of the Ḥāfiẓ given above!

In short, the ḥadīth is authentic on the strength of Ibn Masʿūd’s narration alone—how much more so when reinforced by the narration of Abū Mūsā, may Allah be pleased with him. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim both declared it ṣaḥīḥ, and Ibn al-Qayyim stated this explicitly in more than one of his works, including Shifāʾ al-ʿAlīl (p. 274). As for Ibn Taymiyyah, I cannot at the moment recall in which specific book or epistle he mentioned it.

200 – “He forbade the prayer after ʿAṣr unless the sun is still high.”

It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (1/200), al-Nasāʾī (1/97)—and from him by Ibn Ḥazm in al-Muḥallā (3/31)—as well as by Abū Yaʿlā in his Musnad (1/119) and Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ (621,