Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Maymūn—in Basra—said: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with similar wording.”

I say: All its narrators are trustworthy and well known, and their hadiths are good, apart from this Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, for whom I have not found a biographical entry. However, Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Jawzajānī corroborated him: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated it to us through this chain.” Ibn Ḥibbān included it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (no. 2494—al-Mawārid).

I then saw that al-Haythamī (10/308) cited the hadith through al-Ḥasan’s mursal report and through the connected report of Abū Hurayrah, then said: “Both were narrated by al-Bazzār from his shaykh Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Maymūn, whom I do not know. The remaining narrators of the mursal report are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, as are those of the connected report, apart from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, whose hadith is good.” It is also found in al-Bazzār (4/74/3232 and 3233—Kashf al-Astār).

Al-Bayhaqī also narrated it in Shuʿab al-Īmān (1/482–483), through the route of Abū Dāwūd: “Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Maymūn al-ʿAtkī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb narrated to us through this chain.” I say: Abū Dāwūd is the author of the Sunan, from Sijistān. Thus, Ibn Maymūn has three leading hadith authorities narrating from him: Abū Dāwūd, Ibn Ṣāʿid, and al-Bazzār. A man in such a position cannot be unknown; rather, he is presumably truthful, Allah Most High willing—especially since al-Jawzajānī, a trustworthy hadith master, corroborated him. Ibn Ḥibbān narrated it, as mentioned above. Al-Mundhirī cited it only through him in al-Targhīb (4/138) and indicated that it is strengthened.