I say: al-Ḥarrānī thus mentioned ʿAmrah in place of al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad in the narration of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd, who is abandoned, as is al-Ḥarrānī.
For a long time, I did not consider kissing between the eyes to be established, because this hadith of Jaʿfar is mursal and because I had not found any reliable corroborating report for it. But when al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr was printed, and I found in it its chain of transmission through Anas ibn Salm, and found his biographical entry in Ibn ʿAsākir, it became clear to me that it is a strong corroborating report for the mursal hadith. I therefore deemed it my duty to publish it in this series, in fulfilment of scholarly trust. I knew that many people like myself had not come across it, let alone others, and I wished for them to be fully aware of it.
Praise be to Allah, who guided us to this; and we would never have found guidance had Allah not guided us. A strong corroborating report concerning embracing upon returning from a journey has preceded under no. 2647.
2658 — “He forbade travelling alone.”
It was narrated by al-Ḥākim (2/102), al-Bayhaqī in al-Dalāʾil (2/2/229/2), and likewise al-Bazzār in his Musnad (no. 2022, Kashf al-Astār), through two routes from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī, from ʿAbd al-Karīm, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may Allah be pleased with him, who said:
“A man left Khaybar, and two men followed him. Another man came after them, saying, ‘Go back,’ until he caught up with them and sent them back. He then caught up with the first man and said, ‘These two are devils. I persisted with them until I turned them back from you. When you come to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, convey greetings to him and inform him that we are collecting our charitable dues. Had they been lawful for him, we would have sent them to him.’
When [the man] came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, he informed him, and at that point he forbade travelling alone.”
Al-Ḥākim said—the wording is his, while the additions are al-Bayhaqī’s: