while al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd al-Narsī narrated it from Jaʿfar, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, as a report attributed to the Companion; and that is more sound.”

I say: He means the version attributed to the Companion, for al-Narsī is trustworthy, whereas Sayyār is somewhat weak.

However, I found for it a strong supporting chain. Al-Bazzār said in his Musnad (1/361/755):

“Al-Walīd ibn ʿAmr ibn Sukayn narrated to us: Ḥabbān ibn Hilāl narrated to us: Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, attributing it to the Prophet.”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All of its narrators are trustworthy and are among those whose narrations were used by Muslim—none of them is open to criticism—apart from al-Walīd ibn ʿAmr, who is not among them. Yet he is trustworthy, as al-Dhahabī stated. Al-Nasāʾī said: “There is no harm in him.” Ibn Ḥibbān included him among the trustworthy narrators and said (9/228): “He would sometimes err.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Truthful.”

Al-Bazzār nevertheless declared it defective on the basis of a strange alleged defect, saying immediately afterward:

“We know of no narration from Jābir except through this route, and I do not think that Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān heard from Ibn al-Munkadir, nor that he narrated from him anything besides this.”

I say: This carries no weight, for he narrated from someone who died before Ibn al-Munkadir, namely Thābit al-Bunānī. Nor was he accused of concealment in transmission, and he is a trustworthy narrator among those whose narrations were used by Muslim, as was previously noted.

Yes, Ibn ʿAdī included it in this Jaʿfar’s biographical entry, indicating that it was among his individual narrations. But that does not harm it, for al-Dhahabī cited for him a number of hadiths of this kind and said: “Most of that is in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim …”