And it is an authentic hadith on account of its multiple chains and corroborating reports. Al-Ḥāfiẓ declared it defective in al-Fatḥ because of an unknown narrator in Aḥmad’s chain, and he was correct in doing so. Yet he should have strengthened it through the corroborating reports, as was his usual practice. I therefore felt it necessary to draw attention to this, lest those without knowledge be misled by it. I have documented its sources in the fifth volume of al-Ṣaḥīḥah, no. 2435. May Allah, by His favour and generosity, facilitate the printing of the volumes that remain. The sixth volume has since been printed, and all praise is due to Allah. *
- “Satan comes to one of you and pecks at his buttocks (1), so he should not leave until he hears a sound [or detects an odor].”
Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥarbī recorded it in Gharīb al-Ḥadīth (5/98/1): Abū Muṣʿab narrated to me from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad, from Thawr, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributing it to the Prophet. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; all its narrators are found in al-Ṣaḥīḥ. Abū Muṣʿab’s name was Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī al-Madanī.
Abū Uways—whose name was ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Uways—corroborated ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad, namely al-Dārāwardī, from Thawr ibn Zayd, with a similar but longer version that includes the addition.
Al-Bazzār recorded it in his Musnad (1/147/281) through Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣubayḥ: Abū Uways narrated to us through this chain.
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways also corroborated Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣubayḥ: My father narrated it to me through this chain, except that he added: from Thawr ibn Zayd, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from ʿIkrimah.