Muslim al-Khawlani, from Abu Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he mentioned it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of Muslim, apart from ʿAli ibn Zayd, namely ʿAli ibn ʿAbd Allah Abu al-Hasan al-Faraʾidi. Al-Khatib said in Tarikh Baghdad (11/427): “He was from Tarsus. He came to Samarra and narrated there from Musa ibn Dawud al-Dabbi, and ... and ... Ibn Yunus al-Misri said: ‘They criticized him.’” The same appears in Lisan al-Mizan, except that it reads: “He came to Egypt ...” It further adds: “Maslamah ibn Qasim said: ‘Trustworthy.’ He died in 263 AH.”

Note: This hadith appears in Sharh Maʿani al-Athar with the wording kun (“be”), while both al-Jamiʿ al-Saghir and al-Jamiʿ al-Kabir (16760) have kul (“eat”). I do not know which of the two is correct, though the latter is more specific in meaning than the former. This has also been narrated in another hadith from the Musnad of Jabir with the wording: “Eat in the name of Allah, trusting in Allah and relying upon Allah.” Its chain is weak, as I explained in al-Silsilah al-Daʿifah (1144). If the hadith under discussion is authentic with the second wording, it constitutes strong corroboration for Jabir’s hadith. The latter should then be transferred to Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Sahihah on the one hand, and to Sahih al-Jamiʿ on the other, for it remains, to this day, in Daʿif al-Jamiʿ (4200). Likewise, I had included Abu Dharr’s hadith there (4203) with the second wording, because at that time I had not found its chain of transmission, in accordance with the condition I mentioned in the introduction. If it is authentic, it too should be transferred to al-Sahih in its forthcoming edition, Allah willing.

Another note: Al-Manawi did not make any comment on this hadith’s chain of transmission, and it appears that he had not come across it. This is supported by the fact that he interpreted al-Suyuti’s attribution of it to al-Tahawi as meaning: “in—