and Ibn Abī Shaybah (2/52), from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmar; both of them narrated it from him with this wording.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission, were it not for the break between al-Zuhrī and Ibn ʿUmar, for he did not live to meet him. Some weak narrators, however, have transmitted it with a connected chain, as will follow.

The second: al-Bazzār said in his Musnad (1/274/567): Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Sābiq narrated to us: al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording.

I say: This is a sound chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, except for this Ibn Sābiq. Ibn Ḥibbān included him in the fourth generation of al-Thiqāt (9/282), gave his kunyah as Abū Bakr al-Qurashī al-Kūfī, and said: “He narrates from Wakīʿ, and our shaykhs narrated to us from him.”

Thus, he is known, not unknown.

The third: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥarrānī narrated it: ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from his father, who said ... He then mentioned it.

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (12/282/13122).

I say: This is very weak. ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn ʿUmar—namely, Abū Bakr al-Thaqafī al-Dimashqī—was described by al-Ḥāfiẓ in al-Taqrīb as follows: “His narrations from al-Zuhrī are abandoned; he is weak in regard to others.”

Thus, reliance rests on the preceding route.

Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥarrānī—who is ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn Dāwūd—is trustworthy and among the narrators of al-Bukhārī.