“from his father.” Abū ʿUmar said, “They criticised him for inserting the words ‘from his father,’” while Ibn Ḥazm ruled the report to be mursal.

I say: In spite of that, al-Awzāʿī transmitted it with a continuous chain that names al-Barāʾ, and this is the sounder of the two lines narrated from him. He is further supported by ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿĪsā, who reports it from al-Zuhrī, from Ḥarām ibn Muḥayyisah, from al-Barāʾ. Ibn Mājah and al-Bayhaqī recorded this version (8/341-342).

ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿĪsā is the son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā; he is trustworthy and relied upon in both Ṣaḥīḥs. His narration is therefore a strong corroboration of al-Awzāʿī’s connected chain, which authenticates the ḥadīth. The mursal versions do not harm it, for a trustworthy narrator’s additional detail is accepted—how much more so when both narrators are trustworthy. After citing al-Awzāʿī’s route al-Ḥākim remarked, “Its chain is authentic, though Maʿmar and al-Awzāʿī differ over it,” and al-Dhahabī agreed.

That is what they both said, yet Maʿmar’s dissent carries no weight, for by inserting the phrase “from his father” he contradicts all the reliable narrators, and—as noted earlier—they are not unanimous on that wording. Had the two critics instead pointed to the divergence found in the transmissions of Mālik, al-Layth, and Ibn ʿUyaynah over whether the chain is connected, they would have been nearer the truth; even then, the ḥadīth would remain unimpeached, for it is firmly established as connected through two trustworthy routes, as shown above.

239 – “When you have stoned the Jamrah, everything becomes lawful for you except women.”

Aḥmad recorded it (1/234): Wakīʿ narrated to us; Sufyān narrated from Salamah, from al-Ḥasan al-ʿUrnī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said—then he mentioned the statement. He also said (1/344): Wakīʿ and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān both narrated to us; Sufyān narrated the same, except that on this occasion he did not say, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.” In both places he added at the end: