“With this chain of transmission, from the Messenger of Allah, who said …”—and he cited it. Al-Bazzar said:

“Its chain of transmission is good.”

The hadith master endorsed this in Mukhtasar al-Zawa’id (1/76), and it is as he said—or of an even higher grade—for all its narrators are trustworthy, despite a slight weakness in Ibn Abd al-Rahman, the grandson of Shurahbil, who was one of al-Bukhari’s narrators.

Amr—al-Bazzar’s teacher—appears to be the Ibn Ali mentioned earlier by al-Bazzar before the hadiths on pp. 12 and 15; namely, al-Fallas, the hadith master.

It also has a corroborating route: Ibn Abi Asim recorded it in al-Sunnah (no. 246, in my edition), as did Ibn Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq (4/660), through Hisham ibn Ammar, who said: “Sulayman ibn Utbah al-Sulami narrated it to us,” with the same wording.

The hadith also has supporting reports; see what has preceded in this Silsilah (2439), and in Zilal al-Jannah (111) and (245–247). *

3020—“That is not hypocrisy.”

Al-Bazzar (1/34/52) and Abu Ya‘la (6/105/3369) recorded it through two routes from al-Harith ibn Ubayd, from Thabit, from Anas, who said:

They said: “O Messenger of Allah, when we are with you, we are in one state; but when we leave you, we are in another!”

He said:

“How are you with your Lord?”

Abu Ya‘la narrated: “And with your Prophet?”