(1/488), and al-Hakim (4/426–427), through Maʿmar, from Ishaq ibn Rashid, from ʿAmr ibn Wabisa al-Asadi, from his father, who said:

I was at home in Kufa when I heard at the door: “Peace be upon you. May I enter?”

I said, “And peace be upon you. Enter.” When he came in, it was ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud. I said, “Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman, what sort of time is this for a visit?” It was at the height of midday. He replied, “The day had grown long for me, so I thought of someone with whom I might converse.” He then began relating to me reports from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and I related reports to him.

Then he began to narrate to me, saying: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say ...” and he mentioned it.

Al-Hakim said, “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him, and it is as they said.

ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak corroborated him, reporting: “Maʿmar informed us of it.” Ahmad recorded it (1/449). Al-Haythami said (7/203): “Ahmad narrated it through two chains, and the narrators of one of them are trustworthy.”

I say: By the former, he means his narration through ʿAbd al-Razzaq; and by the latter, his narration through Ibn al-Mubarak. In reality, there is no difference between them, except that in the first narration Ishaq ibn Rashid is not named; rather, it says, “from a man.” That man is Ishaq, as in the narration of al-Musannaf, al-Mustadrak, and the other narration in al-Musnad.

Shaykh al-Aʿzami did not notice this in his notes on al-Musannaf, and so he attributed to Ahmad only the first narration.

Moreover, some narrators inserted an unidentified man between Ishaq and ʿAmr. This is an anomalous—indeed, rejected—narration. Its explanation will come, Allah willing, at the beginning of the Book of Tribulations in Sahih Sunan Abi Dawud. *