“This hadith has an authentic chain of transmission.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him. I say: Its narrators are known and reliable, apart from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maysarah, al-Ḥaḍramī, the Egyptian. No one declared him reliable other than al-Ḥākim, who is lax in accrediting narrators, as are Ibn Ḥibbān and al-ʿIjlī; the latter likewise declared him reliable (835). One therefore cannot be reassured by their exclusive accreditation of him, particularly since al-Ḥāfiẓ said of this ʿAbd al-Raḥmān: “Acceptable”—that is, when corroborated. Otherwise, his hadith is weak, as he pointed out in the introduction.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim included him in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl (2/2/285), but stated no more than: “He narrated from ʿUqayl ibn Khālid, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated from him.” I say: At best, his status is unknown. Later, however, it appeared to me that he should be treated as a reliable narrator, since, besides Ibn Wahb, a number of other reliable narrators transmitted from him, including Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr and Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr, as well as others, as recorded in al-Tahdhīb. Perhaps for this reason al-Haythamī alluded to his reliability, saying in al-Majmaʿ (7/135): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its narrators are reliable.”

He is not the same as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maysarah al-Ḥaḍramī, Abū Salamah of Ḥimṣ, whom al-Dhahabī declared reliable in al-Kāshif. This clarification was therefore necessary. In al-Durr al-Manthūr (6/324), he also attributed the hadith to Abū al-Shaykh, Ibn Mardawayh, and al-Bayhaqī in al-Baʿth. Yet I have not found it in the photographic copy in my possession, whose enlargement Shaykh Ḥammād al-Anṣārī oversaw, nor in its printed edition. It therefore appears to be in its final volume, and Allah knows best.