just mentioned, and claimed that it had been abrogated! ʿAbd al-Razzāq likewise narrated it in al-Muṣannaf (4/348/8016), and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it from him (9/350/9511), from Ibn ʿUyaynah through the same chain, except that he did not explicitly attribute it to the Prophet. Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr also narrated it: “Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah informed us,” through the same chain, but he was uncertain whether it was attributed to the Prophet and abbreviated it, saying: “…from Shaqīq ibn Salamah, who said: Ḥudhayfah said to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd: ‘You certainly know that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: There is no iʿtikāf except in the three mosques—or, he said, in a congregational mosque.’”
Ibn Ḥazm cited this from him in al-Muḥallā (5/195), then rejected the hadith on account of this uncertainty. He is excused, however, because he had not come across the narration of the group from Ibn ʿUyaynah, attributing it to the Prophet without any uncertainty. They were: 1. Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj, as transmitted by al-Ismāʿīlī; 2. Maḥmūd ibn Ādam al-Marwazī, as transmitted by al-Bayhaqī; and 3. Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, as transmitted by al-Ṭaḥāwī. All of them are reliable narrators. Their biographical assessments, quoted from al-Taqrīb, are as follows:
- He was the Qurashī, their client, from Baghdad; truthful, and one of Muslim’s teachers.
- Truthful, and among al-Bukhārī’s teachers, as Ibn ʿAdī mentioned.
- Truthful, a Quran reciter; in old age he became susceptible to prompting, so his earlier hadith are more sound. He too was among al-Bukhārī’s teachers.
I say: His agreement with the two reliable narrators before him proves that he had retained it accurately. Thus, the uncertainty of one who hesitated over attributing it to the Prophet, or who reported it as a statement of a Companion, does them no harm, because attribution to the Prophet is an addition made by reliable narrators and must be accepted.
I then found that al-Fākihī transmitted it in Akhbār Makkah (2/149/1334): “He narrated to us:”