who was trustworthy and a native of Jordan. Ibn ʿAsakir said (11/554):

“He came to al-Jabiyah and heard Anas ibn Malik narrating to the caliph there.”

He seems to be referring to this hadith. Al-Bukhari cited it in suspended form in al-Tarikh (3/1/87), and Ibn ʿAsakir likewise, on his authority (9/189), saying:

“Muhammad ibn Muhajir said: from ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym, from Abu Khalid al-Harashi, from Anas ...”

This thus places Abu Khalid al-Harashi between ʿUrwah and Anas, but I have not been able to identify him.

Al-Dulabi narrated it with a connected chain in his biographical entry in al-Kuna (1/163), through Abu Tawbah al-Rabiʿ ibn Nafiʿ, who said: Muhammad ibn Muhajir narrated to us with this chain.

I say: Al-Dulabi did not give his personal name, and al-Dhahabi did not mention him at all in al-Muqtaṇā. And Allah knows best.

Ibn ʿAsakir then narrated it—in ʿUrwah’s biographical entry—with a weak chain from ʿUrwah, from Anas, with the same wording as Ahmad’s version, except that he substituted ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwan for Muʿawiyah. It explicitly states that ʿUrwah was present at that gathering.

Al-Bukhari and Ibn ʿAsakir then cited it in suspended form through ʿAbd Allah ibn Rashid: ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym heard it from Anas.

This Ibn Rashid was deemed trustworthy by Abu Mushir and Ibn Hibban (7/35).

They then cited it in suspended form through Sulayman ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman: ʿAbd al-Karim ibn Muhammad al-Lakhmi narrated to me: ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym narrated to us: “I heard Anas—may Allah be pleased with him—...”

Abu Nuʿaym narrated this with a connected chain in Akhbar Asbahan (1/156), as did Ibn ʿAsakir (10/434).