Aḥmad also recorded it (3/384): Rūḥ narrated to us: Zakariyyā narrated to us, with the same report.

This too is authentic.

He also recorded it (3/304, 326, and 379), as did Muslim (6/98), Abū Dāwūd (2/132, al-Tāziyyah edition), al-Nasāʾī (2/227 and 229), al-Dārimī (2/116), Ibn Mājah (2400), and Abū Yaʿlā (1769), with the second half of it; al-Ṭayālisī in his Musnad (1751), with its first half; and Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf (8/140/3921), in its entirety, adding:

“Ashʿath said: ‘A tawr is made from tree bark.’”

I say: This is, at the very least, an odd explanation here! For what is known in lexicons such as al-Nihāyah and others is that it is “a vessel made of brass or stone.”

The apparent meaning, then, is that this was one of the errors of this Ashʿath, namely Ashʿath ibn Sawwār al-Kūfī. *

3010—“He would fast, so I waited for the time when he would break his fast with nabīdh that I had prepared in a gourd vessel. Then I brought it to him, and it was fizzing. He said: ‘Throw it against this wall, for this is the drink of one who does not believe in Allah and the Last Day.’”

Abū Dāwūd recorded it (2/134), and through his route al-Bayhaqī (8/303); al-Nasāʾī (2/327) also recorded it, from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār: Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid narrated to us: Zayd ibn Wāqid narrated to us, from Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: “I learned that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would fast...” and he mentioned the hadith.

I say: The narrators in this chain of transmission are trustworthy, except that Hishām has some weakness; and al-Walīd