(No. 9485 in my numbering), in abridged form, through Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Muqri—Abdullah ibn Yazid—who said: Abdullah ibn Ayyash ibn Abbas narrated to us; my father, Ayyash ibn Abbas, narrated to us, saying: I heard Isa ibn Hilal al-Sadafi and Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hubuli say: We heard Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As say: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say this hadith. Al-Tabarani said: “It is narrated from Abdullah ibn Amr only through this chain of transmission.”

Abdullah ibn Wahb corroborated him, saying: Abdullah ibn Ayyash al-Qitbani informed me of a similar report, but he did not mention Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hubuli in its chain of transmission. He said: “They will ride upon cushioned saddles until they come to the doors of their mosques.”

Al-Hakim narrated it (4/436) and said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi criticized this, saying: “I say: Although Abdullah was cited by Muslim, Abu Dawud and al-Nasa’i declared him weak, and Abu Hatim said: He is close to Ibn Lahi'ah.”

I say: The imam al-Layth ibn Sa'd, who was his peer, narrated from him, and Ibn Hibban included him in al-Thiqat. Thus, in view of this and Muslim’s reliance upon him, he is a narrator of moderate standing whose hadith are good. Shaykh Ahmad Shakir was overly generous in his assessment, stating in his commentary on this hadith in al-Musnad (7083): “Its chain of transmission is authentic!”

Al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri indicated that it was strengthened in al-Targhib (3/101) by introducing it with the wording “from.” He records al-Hakim as saying: “Authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.” This should be the original reading of al-Mustadrak and its Abridgment, for had it been as previously quoted—“according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs”—al-Dhahabi would not have made the objection cited above, but would have said: “Although he had