Note: Al-Hafiz erred concerning this hadith when he said in Fath al-Bari (10/33): “Ibn al-Sunni and Abu Nu‘aym, in The Work of Day and Night, narrated it through ‘Uthman ibn Matar, from Thabit, with the wording…” He then cited the hadith and said: “And ‘Uthman is extremely weak.”

He mentioned it after the hadith of Ja‘far ibn Sulayman from Thabit—meaning, from Anas—with a more complete wording than this, but it does not contain the wording concerning the greeting. It was cited previously under hadith 1278. Then al-Hafiz said, following what I have quoted from him: “‘Uthman is extremely weak.”

I say: Al-Hafiz erred in two respects. First, this ‘Uthman is not in Ibn al-Sunni’s chain of transmission. Second, he restricted his documentation of the hadith to this source and Abu Nu‘aym, overlooking its attribution to Ibn Abi Shaybah and Ahmad, whose chains of transmission are free from weakness—something unbecoming of al-Hafiz. Moreover, the hadith meets the criteria for inclusion in al-Haythami’s Majma‘ al-Zawa’id, yet he did not include it. Perhaps the reason is that its original is found in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim through another route from Thabit, from Anas; but I do not think this excuses his omitting it. Allah knows best.

2951 — “The Messenger of Allah forbade nabidh prepared in earthenware jars.”

Al-Nasa’i recorded it in al-Sunan al-Kubra (4/189/6836), as did Ahmad (3/66) and al-Tabarani in al-Mu‘jam al-Awsat (1/112/1/2246), through several routes from Hisham ibn Hassan, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu al-‘Aliyah, who said: “Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri was asked—in one narration, ‘I asked Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri’—about nabidh prepared in earthenware jars.” He said: He then cited it.