Abū ʿAmr narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, tracing it back to the Prophet. Al-ʿUqaylī cited it in the biographical entry for this Naṣr and said: “No one corroborates him in reporting it, and it is known only through him.” Al-Dhahabī said in al-Mīzān: “An itinerant hadith scholar; Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “His hadith are weak.”

Note: It is raḥḥāl, with an r. In the two printed editions of al-Mīzān, it appears as dajjāl, with a d. This is a gross scribal corruption; the correct reading is established by the al-Ẓāhiriyyah manuscript.

As for the hadith of Abū Dharr to which Ibn Mandah referred, it has several routes from him. The first is from ʿUbayd ibn al-Khashkhāsh, from him, who said: “I came to the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him peace, while he was in the mosque ...”—the hadith in full. It includes the hadith under discussion, and states that the man asking the questions was Abū Dharr himself.

Al-Ṭayālisī recorded it in his Musnad (478): al-Masʿūdī narrated to us, from Abū ʿAmr al-Shāmī, from ʿUbayd ibn al-Khashkhāsh. Aḥmad (5/178 and 179) and Ibn Saʿd in al-Ṭabaqāt (1/1/10 and 26) also recorded it through other routes from al-Masʿūdī, with this chain. Al-Haythamī said (1/160): “It was narrated by Aḥmad, al-Bazzār, and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ. Its chain includes al-Masʿūdī, who is trustworthy, but he became confused in his later years.”

I say: Al-Dāraquṭnī deemed ʿUbayd ibn al-Khashkhāsh weak. As for Ibn Ḥibbān, he included him in al-Thiqāt (3/170) and said: