“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy.”

Then, concerning the hadith of Abū Saʿīd, he said (2/167):

“Ahmad and al-Bazzār narrated it … and the narrators in both their chains are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.” *

3037—“He would deliver sermons with a staff in his hand.”

Ibn Saʿd narrated it in al-Ṭabaqāt (1/377): “ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Uwaysī and Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd informed us; they said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah informed us, from Abū al-Aswad, from ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, from his father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, …” He then cited it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All of its narrators are trustworthy, despite the well-known weakness of Ibn Lahīʿah’s memory. However, Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd was among the trustworthy narrators whose reports from Ibn Lahīʿah the scholars deemed authentic, because he narrated from Ibn Lahīʿah’s book rather than from his memory. As has already been established from al-Dhahabī in more than one place, there is no need to repeat it.

The hadith was also narrated by al-Bazzār in his Musnad (1/306–307), Abū al-Shaykh in Akhlāq al-Nabī (128), and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (4/243), through other routes from Ibn Lahīʿah with this chain. Al-Bazzār said:

“We know of no narration from Ibn al-Zubayr except through this route.”

I say: Al-Baghawī’s wording is:

“He would deliver sermons with a staff.”

With this wording, al-Haythamī cited it in al-Majmaʿ (2/187) and said:

“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr, as did al-Bazzār. It contains Ibn Lahīʿah, who is subject to criticism.”