And Hishām ibn ʿAmmār likewise corroborated him in al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (The Great Lexicon) (20/283/669), as did Abū Mushir in al-Ṭaḥāwī’s Sharḥ al-Maʿānī (Explanation of the Meanings) (2/321), both through Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah with the same report. Al-Ṭaḥāwī did not mention, “nor lost property ...,” and so forth. Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb also corroborated Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, narrating from al-Zubaydī only the latter half of it: “Take heed: no fanged beast is lawful ...” Abū Dāwūd recorded it (3804).

I say: This chain is good in light of what follows. Its narrators are trustworthy, except that no one other than Ibn Ḥibbān (5/425) declared Marwān ibn Ruʾbah trustworthy. He said: “His kunyah is Abū al-Ḥuṣayn. He narrates from Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ; he is counted among the people of Syria, and its people narrated from him.” Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in the second generation—that is, the Successors. Yet I have serious doubts that he was a Successor; more likely, he was among the Followers of the Successors, as I have demonstrated in Taysīr al-Intifāʿ (Facilitating Benefit). May Allah make it easy for me to complete it, through His grace and generosity.

Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān also corroborated him, narrating from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿAwf with the same report. Abū Dāwūd recorded it (4604), as did Aḥmad (4/130) and al-Ṭabarānī (20/283/270). I say: Ḥarīz was a trustworthy and precise narrator among al-Bukhārī’s narrators; therefore, the chain is authentic.

There is another route for its first half, through al-Ḥasan ibn Jābir, who said: I heard al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdī Karib say: “On the day of Khaybar, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prohibited certain things, then said:”