Ibn Hibban mentioned him in al-Thiqat and said (8/301): “Abu Sa‘id al-Haddad narrated singular reports from him.” Elsewhere (6/437), he said: “...the people of Wasit narrated from him.” Al-Hafiz cited this from him in al-Lisan. Strangely, however, in this biographical entry he did not mention any of what I cited above from Ibn Abi Hatim and those before him.

As for Muhammad ibn Kathir, the maternal grandson of Yazid ibn Harun, I have not presently found a biographical entry for him in the sources at my disposal. It has already become clear that he was among the shaykhs of al-Bazzar and Bahshal, and Bahshal narrated other hadiths from him as well (pp. 160 and 205). He appears not to have been from Wasit, for Bahshal gave biographies of many of his shaykhs at the end of the book (pp. 218–292), and he is not among them. Perhaps, then, he was from Basra. Allah knows best. Then I found, in the other passage of al-Thiqat: “His origin was Basra, and he settled in Wasit.”

In sum, this route strengthens Ibn Jud‘an’s narration, especially since the hadith has numerous corroborating reports, a good number of which have already been mentioned under nos. 294 and 297.

2680 — “No woman who sends ahead three of her children, seeking Allah’s reward through them, will fail to enter Paradise.” One of the women asked, “And two?” He replied, “And two.”

Imam Ahmad recorded it (2/246): Sufyan narrated to us; Suhayl ibn Abi Salih narrated to us, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah: