“Al-Dāraquṭnī declared him weak … Ibn al-Munādī said: ‘People recorded hadith from him.’ Aḥmad ibn Kāmil said: ‘… He had little knowledge of hadith, but his hearing was not impugned.’”

It is most likely that he is the man whose biography appears in Tārīkh Baghdād (4/54), though it gives “Bishr” in place of “Bashīr.” The same occurs in the chain of another hadith in al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr (no. 86—al-Rawḍ). Yet in al-Awsaṭ, in this hadith and others, it is given as “Bashīr”; this is evidently the correct reading.

In sum, the hadith is authentic through the combined strength of its two chains, if it is not authentic—or at least sound—through the other chain alone. The Ḥāfiẓ indicated this by remaining silent about it, having cited it through both its chains in al-Fatḥ (13/15).

Part of it is further corroborated by the hadith of Ibn ʿAmr, with the wording:

“Among the signs of the Hour are that talk will become widespread, deeds will be held back, the wicked will be raised up, and the righteous will be brought low …”

Its documentation has previously been given under no. 2821.

Similar to it are the previously cited hadith of al-Ruwaybiḍah (2253), and that concerning obscenity and lewdness (2238). *

3212—(Aslam and Ghifār, and men from Muzaynah and Juhaynah, are better than the two allied tribes: Ghaṭafān and Banū ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah.)

Al-Bazzār narrated it (3/308/2814): Muḥammad ibn Miskīn related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad [ibn] Janāḥ related to us; Hilāl ibn al-Jahm related to us; Isḥāq related from Anas, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording. Anas said: ʿUyaynah ibn Badr then said, “By Allah, I would rather be among these in Hell—meaning Ghaṭafān and Banū ʿĀmir—than be among these in Paradise.”