The third: Rawwād ibn al-Jarrāḥ, from al-Awzāʿī, with the same report. Ibn Jarīr and al-Ḥākim (2/526) recorded it, and al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī rebutted him, saying: “I say: ʿIṣām ibn Rawwād alone narrated it from his father, and he has been declared weak.”

I say: ʿIṣām was not alone in narrating it, for Muḥammad ibn Khalaf al-ʿAsqalānī corroborated him; he is truthful, as al-ʿAsqalānī stated. Indeed, Rawwād is weak because he became confused in his later years, but the preceding corroborating reports show that he retained it accurately. Thus, the hadith is authentic beyond doubt.

2791 — “In the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, our blankets were garments that we wore and prayed in.”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (1/335/563): Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim told us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī told us: al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb ibn Nudbah told us: Rāshid Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥammānī told us: “I saw Anas ibn Mālik wearing a red fur garment, and he then related it.” Al-Ṭabarānī said: “No one narrated it from Rāshid except al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥabīb.”

I say: He is trustworthy, as al-Dhahabī stated in al-Kāshif. Rāshid was Ibn Nujayḥ. Al-Dhahabī said: “Abū Ḥātim said: ‘His hadith is acceptable.’” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: