al-Dūlābī included him in al-Kunā (2/84), but did not mention any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him, as was generally his practice. Yet he was not alone in narrating it, contrary to what is suggested by Abū Nuʿaym’s preceding statement. Aḥmad said in al-Musnad (5/416): “Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Saʿīd al-Jurayrī narrated to us, from Abū Naḍrah, who said: Someone who heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, deliver a sermon in the middle of the Days of Tashrīq narrated to me, and he mentioned it.”

Al-Muḥāmilī also transmitted it in al-Amālī (4/44/2), from Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm, through the same chain. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators, except for the one who heard his sermon, peace and blessings be upon him, for he is unnamed. This causes no harm, since he was a Companion, and all the Companions are upright, as is established in hadith terminology. For this reason, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said in al-Iqtiḍāʾ (p. 69): “Its chain of transmission is authentic.”

Ismāʿīl was also corroborated, for al-Ḥārith said in his Musnad—al-Zawāʾid (folio 9/2): “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us: Saʿīd al-Jurayrī narrated to us,” through the same chain. I say: This is a strong corroborating narration, for ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is trustworthy and is among Muslim’s narrators in his Ṣaḥīḥ.

Abū al-Mundhir al-Warrāq differed from them, narrating it from al-Jurayrī, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd, attributed to the Prophet, with this wording but without the verse and what follows it. Abū al-Shaykh transmitted it in al-Tawbīkh (259/245), as did al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ (1/292/1/4885), who said: “None narrated it from al-Jurayrī except Abū al-Mundhir al-Warrāq, and it is not narrated from Abū Saʿīd except through this chain of transmission.”