Bakkār. As al-Ṭabarānī stated, he alone narrated it, but his sole narration does not harm it, for he is a trustworthy imam.”

Al-Haythamī said something similar in al-Majmaʿ (5/30). I say: You have thus learned that Ibn Fulayḥ and Ibn Maymūn—both of whom are also trustworthy—corroborated him; the chain of transmission is therefore wholly authentic. Al-Mundhirī erred in attributing it generally to al-Ṭabarānī, for he recorded it only in al-Awsaṭ, to which al-Haythamī attributed it.

The second: Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhḍar, from al-Zuhrī, through the same chain. It was recorded by al-Bazzār (3/337/2886), who said: “There is disagreement concerning its transmission from al-Zuhrī. Ibn ʿUyaynah said: from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, in mursal form. ʿUqayl said: from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī”—the original reads: “Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Hurayrah”—“whereas Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn said: from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah.”

I say: I have not found ʿUbayd Allāh’s mursal report. If the chain of transmission to him is authentic, then the sound report from him is the one from Ibn ʿAbbās, due to the narration of the three trustworthy transmitters from him. It is apparent that this did not reach al-Bazzār. Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhḍar is weak, though his report may be considered when it does not contradict others.

The third: ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, attributed directly to the Prophet, with the wording: “Whoever goes to bed with the smell of grease on his hand and is then afflicted with leucoderma should blame no one but himself.” Al-Bazzār cited it without a full chain, as mentioned above, while al-Ṭabarānī recorded it with a connected chain in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (6/43/5435).