“…and his hadith is good, while the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Sahih.” Al-Bazzar also recorded it (2/415/1996) through another route from Ibn Aqil, with wording similar to it, and said: “We know of no report with this wording or meaning except through Ibn al-Hanafiyyah from Ali.”

I say: Al-Ala al-Raqqi differed from all the routes in al-Hakim’s version, saying: “…Ibn Aqil, from his father,” in place of: “…from Muhammad ibn Ali,” namely Ibn al-Hanafiyyah. This indicates al-Raqqi’s weakness. Yet the text of the hadith is established through the combined narrations, as we have mentioned. Ahmad Shakir declared its chain of transmission authentic in his notes on al-Musnad (4/351), but this was due to the leniency for which he was known. He then said: “However, it is contradicted by what has preceded (769 and 953) concerning their naming, and perhaps what has preceded is more likely to be correct.” He was referring to the hadith of Hani ibn Hani from Ali, with similar wording, which states that he named each of them Harb at the time of their birth. In my view, this chain is weak, as I explained in al-Da'ifah (3706). Thus, this hadith of ours is the more likely one. It also has a supporting narration from the hadith of Surah bint Mushrah, which I discussed in the aforementioned source.

2710 — “You were more deserving of prostrating than the tree.”

Abu Ya'la recorded it in his Musnad (1/298), and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat (no. 4904), through the route of al-Jarrah ibn Makhlad: al-Yaman ibn Nasr, the flour merchant, informed us