I say: This chain of transmission is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy and meet Muslim’s criteria. Ibn Jurayj and Abū al-Zubayr explicitly stated direct transmission, as will follow, except for Ibn Ḥibbān’s shaykh, ʿAbdān, who was from al-Ahwāz. He was a leading hadith master and authoritative authority; he has a good biographical notice in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ and al-Siyar (14/168–172).

It was also transmitted by Abū ʿAwānah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (5/508), by Aḥmad (3/297–298 and 322), and likewise by Muslim (6/154), through several routes from Ibn Jurayj, who said: “Abū al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh...” He then cited the five prohibitions, omitting the prohibition against drinking and replacing it with: “Do not place one of your legs over the other when you are lying on your back.”

Aḥmad added: “I said to Abū al-Zubayr, ‘Does he place his foot upon the knee while lying on his back?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He said: As for al-ṣammāʾ—one of the two modes of dress—it is to place the inner and outer ends of your waist-wrapper over one of your shoulders. I said to Abū al-Zubayr, ‘They say: “One should not sit with one’s knees drawn up in a single waist-wrapper while exposing oneself.”’ He said, ‘That is how I heard Jābir say it: One should not sit with one’s knees drawn up in a single waist-wrapper.’ Ḥajjāj reported from Ibn Jurayj that he said: ‘with his private parts exposed (1)...’”

Muslim, Abū ʿAwānah, and others then transmitted the four prohibitions from Abū al-Zubayr through other routes. In one version recorded by both of them: “and that one should sit with one’s knees drawn up in a single garment, with one’s private parts uncovered.” In one of his versions, Abū ʿAwānah added: