“…whoever spits while facing the qiblah will come on the Day of Resurrection with that spittle upon his face.”

223 – “Whoever spits while facing the qiblah will come on the Day of Resurrection with that spittle upon his face.”

Ibn Ḥibbān recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (333): “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād al-Kinānī—at al-Ubulla—told us; Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ told us; Shabābah told us; ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad narrated from Muḥammad ibn Sawqah, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, raised to the Prophet.”

I say: Everyone in this chain is trustworthy and well-known and belongs to al-Bukhārī’s narrators, except this al-Kinānī; I have not yet found a biographical entry for him. Nevertheless, he is not the sole transmitter. Al-Mundhirī, in al-Targhīb (1/122), attributed the report to al-Bazzār, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Ḥibbān in their respective Ṣaḥīḥ collections. Ibn Khuzaymah is of the same generation as the aforementioned al-Kinānī, so he probably narrated it through someone other than him—either directly from Ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ or through another intermediary. As for al-Bazzār, his route is certainly different from al-Kinānī’s, for it contains ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, as al-Haythamī noted (2/19), who said: “Al-Bukhārī and a number of scholars declared him weak, while Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the trustworthy.”

I say: In al-Taqrīb he is graded weak.

I say: Even if this route does not strengthen the ḥadith as a supporting or corroborative narration, it at least causes no harm, and the ḥadith is authentic in any case.