“No one is to engrave the same inscription on a ring.”
I say: This chain of transmission is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.
I did not say, “According to the criteria of both al-Bukhari and Muslim,” because al-Bukhari did not include any report from Maʿmar on the authority of Thabit in his Sahih except in suspended form, as the hadith master Ibn Hajar stated in Hady al-Sari (pp. 444–445); whereas Muslim included it from him in this manner.
In Tuhfat al-Ashraf (1/150–154), the hadith master al-Mizzi sets forth Maʿmar’s chains of transmission in a manner consistent with what Ibn Hajar indicated.
The hadith cited here also has a supporting narration from Ibn ʿUmar, which I have traced in al-Irwaʾ (818). *
- “I recognize the voices of the group of al-Ashʿaris as they recite the Quran when they enter at night, and I recognize their dwellings by their voices reciting the Quran at night, although I did not see their dwellings when they encamped there by day. Among them is a wise man who, whenever he encounters cavalry—or, he said, the enemy—says to them: ‘My companions instruct you to wait for them.’”
It was narrated by al-Bukhari (4232), Muslim (7/171), and Abu Yaʿla in his Musnad (7318), through Abu Usamah, who said: Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us from Abu Burdah, from Abu Musa, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said ... then he related it.
Regarding “wait for them,” the hadith master Ibn Hajar said in Fath al-Bari (7/487):
“That is, wait for them.”
I say: This is the wording of Abu Yaʿla’s narration. *