As for the ḥadith of Thaʿlabah, it is transmitted by Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, the freedman of Muzaynah, from Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, from him.

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in his Muʿjam, as cited by al-Zaylaʿī (4/385), and al-Zaylaʿī offered no comment on it. I am not acquainted with this Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm, and this ḥadith escaped the attention of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Haythamī, so he did not include it in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (4/110); in that place he cited only the reports of Jābir and ʿĀʾishah.

In short, these constitute numerous transmission-lines. Al-Nawawī alluded to them in his Arbaʿīn and then said, “Each of them lends strength to the others.” Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ said something similar: “Taken together they reinforce the ḥadith and render it ḥasan, and the great majority of scholars have accepted it and used it as evidence.” Likewise, Abū Dāwūd’s statement that it is among the aḥādīth upon which jurisprudence turns indicates that it is not weak.

251 – “The protected area (ḥarīm) of a well is forty cubits in every direction, all of it set aside as watering places for camels and sheep.”

Imām Aḥmad narrated it (2/494): Hushaym said, “ʿAwf informed us, from a man who related it to him, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said”—and he mentioned it.

I say: This isnād is weak because of the unknown man who is not named. Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (3/125):