Yūnus al-Yamāmī—all three of them—from ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanẓalah reported:

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām once passed through the marketplace carrying a bundle of firewood. Someone said to him, “Has Allah not made you independent of this?” He replied, “Indeed He has, but I wished thereby to ward off arrogance. I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: …” Then he cited the hadith.

Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic, though neither of the two Shaykhs recorded it in connection with ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām.”

Al-Dhahabī challenged this, saying: “I say: Sālim is weak.”

I say: He was corroborated by the narrator previously mentioned, who was of his generation.

There is nothing objectionable in the hadiths of Ismāʿīl ibn Sinān al-ʿUṣfurī, as Abū Ḥātim said (2/176/592). And ʿUmar—in the original, it reads: ʿUthmān, which is a copyist’s error—ibn Yūnus al-Yamāmī was trustworthy and among the narrators relied upon by al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

The one who narrated from him, Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd, was Ibn Muḥammad ibn Shuʿbah ibn Yazīd ibn al-Najjār al-Yamāmī. Ibn Maʿīn praised him highly and said: “Few people have I seen with a better understanding of the hadiths of al-Yamāmah than he.” Abū Ḥātim said (4/114/495): “Truthful.”

I say: Thus, al-Aṣbahānī’s chain of transmission is good, and it is among the precious material found in his book.

Al-Mundhirī said (4/18): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it with a good chain of transmission, as did al-Aṣbahānī, except that his wording is: ‘a speck’s weight of arrogance.’”