Ibn Mardawayh, through the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shuqayq from him. In Fath al-Bārī (8/159), he graded its chain as good; but I fear that it may be one of the variants among the discrepancies found in its chain of transmission from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shuqayq. And Allah knows best.

In conclusion, the hadith is authentic when all these routes are taken together. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr alluded to this in his Tafsīr, and Ibn Abī al-ʿIzz al-Ḥanafī explicitly affirmed its establishment at the end of his commentary on al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah Creed. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah definitively attributed it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (3/127), and followed it with the words:

“This is because the Jews knew the truth but did not follow it, whereas the Christians worshipped Allah without knowledge.”

Indeed, elsewhere in the same work (1/64), he explicitly declared it authentic. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. *

3264 — “Glory be to Allah, and all praise is due to Allah, and none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and Allah is the Greatest” are among the enduring righteous deeds.

Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī narrated it in his Tafsīr (15/166). He said: “I found written in my book: al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār narrated to us, from Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ...” Then he cited it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, due to the well-known scholarly disagreement concerning Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān. All its other narrators are trustworthy narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs. Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ was among Ibn Jarīr’s teachers, as al-Dhahabī mentioned in his biography in al-Siyar (14/269).

It has also been corroborated. Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī said: “ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim narrated it to us,” with a longer wording: