- As for the hadith of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, it is narrated by ʿUthmān ibn Hārūn al-Qurashī: ʿIṣām ibn Qudāmah narrated to us from ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī, from him, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording, except that he said: “His sins will be forgiven, even if they are as numerous as the sands of ʿĀlij, the foam of the sea, and the stars of the sky.” It was transmitted by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Duʿāʾ (1784) and Ibn ʿAsākir in Tārīkh Dimashq (14/353/1–2).
I say: ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī is weak. I could find no biographical entry for ʿUthmān ibn Hārūn al-Qurashī. He was corroborated by Ashʿath ibn Shuʿbah in al-Ṭabarānī’s work, but he too is weak.
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As for the hadith of Anas, it is narrated by Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh from him, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording. Ibn ʿAsākir transmitted it (14/358/2). I say: This chain of transmission is exceedingly weak. Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh is utterly discredited and accused, as al-Dhahabī said. Ibn Ḥibbān said (1/295): “A shaykh who used to narrate fabricated reports from Anas. It is not permissible to mention him in books or to write down what he narrated, except in order to criticize him.” I say: Therefore, it is not permissible to cite it as supporting evidence—by no means.
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As for the hadith of al-Barāʾ, it is narrated by ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, through a flimsy chain from him, with the same wording, except that he added: “At the end of every prayer.” This is an invalid addition, uniquely reported by this Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn; he and his shaykh are both abandoned narrators. For this reason, I documented their hadith in al-Ḍaʿīfah (4546), so there is no need to document it again. In sum, the hadith through Ibn Masʿūd is authentic, and most of its other chains of transmission