al-Zawāʾid” (8/262), citing Aḥmad’s version—although this does not meet the condition of his book, since it is in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim! He also claimed that its wording differs from Aḥmad’s.
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By contrast, in al-Durr al-Manthūr (3/325), al-Suyūṭī attributed the hadith of Abū Hurayrah only to Ibn Mardawayh, even though in al-Jāmiʿayn he attributed it to Aḥmad and Muslim!
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The commentator’s statement regarding the hadith of Abū Mūsā in al-Iḥsān (11/238, Muʾassasah edition):
“Its chain of transmission is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs … and I have not found this hadith with anyone besides the author!”
He overlooked the break between Saʿīd ibn Jubayr and Abū Mūsā, as well as the omission that occurred in the author’s narration. This prevented him from recognizing the correct wording of the hadith, which has already been explained, and led him to interpret the truncated hadith wrongly. He said:
“As for the words, ‘Whoever hears’: it is said, ‘I made a man heard of,’ meaning: when you publicize him and denounce him.”
This interpretation is invalid in terms of transmission, language, and religious law.
- As for the transmission, this is evident upon examining the text of the hadith cited above. Its wording in Aḥmad and others, through the route of Shuʿbah found in Ibn Ḥibbān, is:
“Whoever among my community—Jew or Christian—hears of me and then does not believe in me will enter the Fire.”
- As for the language, the meaning he assigned to the truncated wording of the hadith would only be possible if it read: “Whoever publicizes a Jew or a Christian.” Its actual wording, however, is: “Whoever hears a Jew …,”