Al-Haythamī said (10/117):
“It was transmitted by al-Bazzār, and its narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ except for ʿUthmān ibn Muhib, and he is trustworthy.”

228 – “The man is not to make another man rise from his seat; rather, make room, and Allah will make room for you.”

Imām Aḥmad recorded it in his Musnad (2/483): “Suraij related to us; Fulayḥ related to us from Ayyūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Saʿsaʿa al-Anṣārī, from Yaʿqūb ibn Abī Yaʿqūb, from Abū Hurayrah”—as a marfūʿ report.

I say: This chain is ḥasan; its narrators are considered reliable.

As for Yaʿqūb ibn Abī Yaʿqūb, al-Tahdhīb reports: “Abū Ḥātim said, ‘He is ṣadūq (truthful),’ and Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the trustworthy.”

I add: Ibn Abī Ḥātim also gave him an entry in al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, but he did not cite his father’s statement that he is ṣadūq.

As for Ibn Saʿsaʿa, Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt, a number of scholars narrated from him, and al-Khazarjī in al-Khulāṣa and al-Ḥāfiẓ in al-Taqrīb both said: “Ṣadūq.”

The remaining narrators belong to the set of transmitters relied upon by the two Shaykhs (al-Bukhārī and Muslim).

This ḥadīth has two corroborating chains that al-Ḥāfiẓ mentions in Fatḥ (11/53), yet he overlooked this very ḥadīth—which likewise enjoys supporting evidence! Commenting on al-Bukhārī’s words, “Ibn ʿUmar used to dislike that a man stand up for another from his seat and then the latter sit in it,” he said: “Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Adab al-Mufrad with the wording: Whenever a man would stand up for Ibn ʿUmar…”