I say: This chain of transmission is very weak. Its defect lies with this ‘Isa the tailor, who is also called al-Hannat and al-Khabbat, a seller of khabt; he had practised all three trades. Al-Dhahabi said in al-Kashif: “They declared him weak.” Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Abandoned.”

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan—namely, al-Shaybani, the companion of Abu Hanifah—was included by al-Dhahabi among the weak narrators, who said: “Al-Nasa’i declared him weak on account of his retention.” Yet the defect lies with his abandoned shaykh. Ibn Qutaybah also narrated it from Muhammad ibn al-Hasan in Islah Ghalat Abi ‘Ubayd (f. 52/2, al-Zahiriyyah manuscript).

Al-Khattabi cited it without a chain in Gharib al-Hadith (1/221), as had Ibn Jarir al-Tabari before him in Tahdhib al-Athar (Musnad ‘Ali, p. 116). He indicated its weakness by introducing it with the words: “It has been narrated from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that he said.” Its editor, the literary scholar Mahmud Shakir, said: “I did not find its chain of transmission, nor did Abu ‘Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam transmit it with a chain in Gharib al-Hadith, 1:79.”

I say: It appears that its chain of transmission was omitted from the printed edition to which the professor referred. Here I have presented it to the esteemed readers, copied from a manuscript of Gharib Abi ‘Ubayd and a manuscript