Nevertheless, Ibn Abi Hatim included him in al-Kuna, stating (4/2/361):

“Abu Hamzah al-Khawlani heard from Jabir, and Bakr ibn Sawadah narrated from him.” Abu Zurʿah said: “He is an Egyptian whose name is unknown.”

He also included him in al-Asmaʾ, stating (4/2/49):

“Wafaʾ—in the original, Wiqaʾ, with a qaf—ibn Shurayh al-Sadafi narrated from Sahl ibn Saʿd and Rufiʿ ibn Thabit. Ziyad ibn Nuʿaym and Bakr ibn Sawadah narrated from him.”

I say: Apparently, they are one and the same, if Ibn Lahiʿah’s report is sound. And Allah knows best.

260 — “Recite the Quran, but do not seek worldly gain through it, do not seek to amass wealth by it, do not shun it, and do not go to excess regarding it.”

Al-Tahawi narrated it in Sharh al-Maʿani (2/10), as did Ahmad (3/428, 444), al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (1/142/2, 170/2—from Zawaʾid al-Muʿjamayn), and Ibn ʿAsakir (9/486/2), through various routes from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from—in one version, “Zayd ibn Salam narrated to us”—Zayd ibn Salam, from Abu Salam—although al-Tabarani does not say “from Abu Salam”—from Abu Rashid al-Hubrani, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Shibl al-Ansari, who said that Muʿawiyah said to him: “When you come to my tent, stand and relate what you heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.” He said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say it.” The wording is Ahmad’s.

Al-Tabarani also narrated it in al-Kabir, as cited in al-Majmaʿ (4/73), which states: “Its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: It is as he said; indeed, its chain of transmission is authentic. All its narrators are narrators of Muslim, apart from Abu Rashid al-Hubrani—the unpointed haʾ having a dammah and the baʾ a sukun—who is trustworthy and from whom a number of