I say: This chain of transmission is very weak. ‘Umar ibn Qays is the one known as Sandal, and he is abandoned.
Ibn Wahb also narrated it as a mursal report from two other shaykhs:
- He said: Ibn Jurayj informed me, from ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah, that the Messenger of Allah granted the camel herders a concession to stone the Jamarat at night.
Al-Bayhaqi recorded it. This is an authentic mursal chain, if Ibn Jurayj heard it from ‘Ata’—as is most likely.
- He also said: Yahya ibn Ayyub informed me, from ‘Umarah ibn Ghaziyyah, from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, from Abu Salamah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, from the Prophet, to the same effect.
Al-Bayhaqi also recorded it.
This is an authentic mursal chain; its narrators are those of the Sahih collection.
It is corroborated by the connected-chain report of Muslim ibn Khalid: ‘Ubayd Allah ibn ‘Umar narrated to us, from Nafi‘, from Ibn ‘Umar, similarly to the hadith of Ibn Jurayj.
Al-Bazzar recorded it in his Musnad (2/32/1139), as did al-Bayhaqi.
I say: In my view, this is a good chain for corroborative evidence. All its narrators are narrators of Muslim, apart from Muslim ibn Khalid al-Zanji. He was a jurist, truthful but prone to many errors, as al-Hafiz said; and al-Dhahabi’s assessment is similar: “Truthful, but makes errors.”
As for Ibn al-Turkumani’s statement in al-Jawhar al-Naqi, in which he critiques al-Bayhaqi, saying: