Al-Tirmidhi likewise recorded it (3308): Ahmad ibn Mani‘ narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us; Husayn narrated to us, relating the same report. He said:

“This hadith is good and authentic.”

Ibn Hibban likewise recorded it (6837) through another route from Hushaym.

A group of trustworthy narrators corroborated Hushaym in narrating it from Husayn, but without the hadith cited in the heading. Al-Bukhari recorded it (936 and 4899), as did Muslim, Ibn Khuzaymah (3/161–162), Abu Ya‘la (1888), Ahmad (3/313 and 370), Ibn Abi Shaybah (2/113), Ibn Jarir in al-Tafsir (28/67–68), and al-Bayhaqi (3/181–182), through several routes from Husayn, relating the same report. Some of them do not mention Abu Sufyan, and none of them mentioned the hadith cited in the heading. It is therefore anomalous, since Zakariyya ibn Yahya alone narrated it; he was al-Wasiti, nicknamed Zahmawayh. He was trustworthy, as al-Hafiz stated in al-Lisan (2/484), and Ibn Hibban included him in al-Thiqat (8/253), saying:

“He was one of the highly precise narrators.”

Yet his contradiction of these trustworthy narrators by adding this material to their report perhaps does not support Ibn Hibban’s assessment of him. So let this be considered.

For this reason, the commentator on Musnad Abi Ya‘la overlooked this contradiction when he said in his note on the hadith:

“Its chain of transmission is authentic, and it has already preceded under no. 1888.”

Similarly, the commentator on al-Ihsan (15/300) said:

“Its chain of transmission is authentic. Zakariyya ibn Yahya Zahmawayh was narrated from by a group, and the author mentioned him in...”