I say: He seems to be referring to another hadith—which we shall cite.
Al-Bazzār said:
“We know of no one who narrated it from Thābit, from Anas, except al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd Abū Qudāmah. Ḥammād ibn Salamah differed from him, narrating it from Thābit, from Ibn ʿUmar.”
I say: It is the one that follows.
This al-Ḥārith was deemed weak because of his errors. Al-Ḥāfiẓ alluded to this when he said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.”
I say: A narration from someone like him may be used as corroborative evidence and is strengthened by other reports. Perhaps al-ʿUqaylī’s preceding remarks allude to this. Al-Haythamī, however, erred concerning it. After attributing the hadith to al-Bazzār and Abū Yaʿlā, he said (10/83):
“The narrators of both are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ!”
Al-Ḥāfiẓ criticized him for this, writing in the margin of al-Majmaʿ:
“I say: It contains al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd Abū Qudāmah, who narrates many objectionable reports, and this is one of them. Al-Bazzār mentioned that he alone narrated it.”
- As for the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, Thābit likewise narrates it from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to a man … the hadith.
It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/68) and Abū Yaʿlā (10/55/5690), through ʿAffān: “Ḥammād narrated to us; Thābit narrated to us …” Ḥammād said:
“He did not hear this from Ibn ʿUmar; there is a man between them”—that is, between Thābit and Ibn ʿUmar.