Aḥmad recorded it (2/365).

These two corroborating reports lend greater weight to Aḥmad’s transmission from the book of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, which includes the addition of ʿAmr ibn Abī Nuʿaymah in the chain of transmission. It has thus become clear to me that the chain is weak, contrary to what I had maintained long ago in some annotations. This is because al-Dāraquṭnī said of ʿAmr ibn Abī Nuʿaymah:

“An Egyptian, unknown, and to be abandoned.”

As for Ibn Ḥibbān, he included him in al-Thiqāt (7/229), following his usual criterion!

Now that you know this, Ibn Abī Nuʿaymah’s report contains an additional passage recorded by al-Bukhārī and others:

“Whoever is consulted by his Muslim brother and advises him contrary to sound guidance has betrayed him. And whoever gives a legal ruling without due verification, its sin rests upon the one who issued it.”

This addition is recorded by Abū Dāwūd (3657). Al-Dārimī records its second clause (1/570), but does not mention Ibn Abī Nuʿaymah in its chain; this is one of Abū Dāwūd’s two transmissions. Al-Dhahabī said in his biographical entry in al-Kāshif:

“His report is not authentic.”

He was referring to this hadith with this addition. Otherwise, its first clause is authentic, owing to the supporting reports and chains, as mentioned earlier and as will follow.

Moreover, this wording has been authentically transmitted through another route, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording:

“Whoever deliberately lies against me, let him take…”