“Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Azdī, from Abū al-Jawzāʾ.” Abū al-Fatḥ al-Azdī said: “I have reservations about him.” It appears there as “ʿUbayd,” in the diminutive form; and it is the same in al-Lisān, which adds: “Al-ʿUqaylī said: ‘A Basran, known as Abū Yaḥyā; his chain from ʿAmr ibn Mālik is not preserved, while the text is known through a chain other than this one.’ Al-Bukhārī said: ‘There is some question about him.’”
I say: I have not found him mentioned in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, nor in al-Bukhārī’s al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr or al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr. Perhaps, moreover, al-ʿUqaylī was referring, by his statement, “the text is known through a chain other than this one,” to the forthcoming hadith of Asmāʾ:
- As for the hadith of Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays, there are two chains from her. The first is narrated by Majmaʿ ibn Yaḥyā: Abū al-ʿUyūf Saʿb—or Ṣuʿayb—al-ʿAnazī narrated to me, saying: I heard Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays say: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with these two ears of mine saying—and he then cited it in similar terms—its wording being: “Whoever is afflicted by anxiety, anguish, illness, or hardship, and says, ‘Allah is my Lord; He has no partner,’ Allah will remove it from him.”
Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (2/2/328/3006), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (24/154/396) and also in al-Duʿāʾ. I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, except that no one authenticated Abū al-ʿUyūf besides Ibn Ḥibbān. However, in al-Thiqāt (3/119), Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned another narrator from him besides Majmaʿ ibn Yaḥyā: Abū al-Ghurayf al-Hamdānī, who was likewise a trustworthy Successor. His name was ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīfah, and Ibn Ḥibbān has an entry on him there (3/