I say: This is a more precise formulation than al-Tabarani’s foregoing statement, because it is not open to the objection that applies to al-Tabarani’s statement—namely, that Ahmad ibn Yunus was alone in transmitting it. Imam Ahmad said in al-Musnad (2/513): “Ibn Amir narrated to us: Abu Bakr reported to us from Hisham, through the same chain, with similar wording.” Ibn Amir is Aswad ibn Amir, as appears in hadiths preceding this one; he too is trustworthy and one of the narrators of the two Shaykhs.

Al-Haythami said in al-Majma‘ (10/257), after citing it through Ahmad’s narration: “Ahmad, al-Bazzar, and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat narrated it with similar wording. Their narrators are those of the Sahih, apart from al-Bazzar’s shaykh and al-Tabarani’s shaykh, both of whom are trustworthy.”

The hadith has a second chain: Abu Salih Abd Allah ibn Salih narrated to us: Al-Layth ibn Sa‘d narrated to us from Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, that a man from the Ansar was in need... The hadith is similar, but more complete. Al-Bayhaqi recorded it. Abu Salih has some weakness.

It has a third chain, from Shahr ibn Hawshab, who said: Abu Hurayrah said: “Once, in bygone times, a man and his wife had no means at all. The man returned from a journey and came to his wife hungry, having been stricken by severe hunger. He said to his wife, ‘Do you have anything?’ She said, ‘Yes...’” The hadith is similar. Ahmad recorded it (2/421). Shahr ibn Hawshab is weak, and his narration contains rejected additions. And Allah knows best.

2938 — “It is not lawful for anyone to carry weapons there for fighting.” That is, Medina.

Ahmad recorded it in al-Musnad (3/347): Musa narrated to us: Ibn Lahi‘ah narrated to us from