“No one narrated it from al-ʿAbbās except Ibrāhīm, who is Abū Shaybah.”
I say: He is an abandoned narrator of hadith, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated.
Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (3/68), after citing it in the wording of Aḥmad mentioned above:
“Aḥmad narrated it with an authentic chain of transmission; al-Ṭabarānī, al-Bazzār, and al-Ḥākim also narrated it, and al-Ḥākim declared it authentic.”
Al-Haythamī said (4/272):
“Aḥmad, al-Bazzār, and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr and al-Awsaṭ, and Aḥmad’s narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”
This is what both of them said. Yet Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥumayd, who appears in Aḥmad’s Musnad, is not among the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, quite apart from his weakness.
- “Whatever state a person dies in, Allah will resurrect him in that state.”
Al-Ḥākim recorded it (4/313) through al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. He then cited the hadith.
He said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him.
I say: It is as they both said. Al-Suyūṭī also attributed it in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (2/296/2) to Aḥmad, Abū Yaʿlā, and al-Ḍiyāʾ in al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah.
It is explained by the hadith of Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording:
“Whoever dies in one of these states will be resurrected in that state on the Day of Resurrection”—meaning raiding and pilgrimage.