Abu Hatim said:

“He is not strong, and he is unknown.”

That is, unknown in identity, for they mentioned no one who narrated from him apart from ‘Ikrimah ibn ‘Ammar. As for al-Dhahabi’s statement in al-Mizan:

“Al-Nadr ibn Muhammad and others narrated from him!”

this was a slip of the eye or the pen on his part. Al-Hafiz did not draw attention to it in al-Lisan, for al-Nadr narrated only from ‘Ikrimah ibn ‘Ammar, as you have seen in the chain of transmission.

I say: It is astonishing that al-Haythami did not know him, even though he is given biographical notices in these sources. More astonishing still is that he appears in al-Haythami’s own book, Arrangement of Ibn Hibban’s Reliable Narrators! Exalted is Allah: “My Lord neither errs nor forgets.”

As for the sounder route to which al-‘Uqayli alluded in his preceding statement, I do not know precisely what he meant by it. For it is authentic from the hadith of Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, as recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim; from Abu Hurayrah, as recorded by Muslim; and from Ibn ‘Amr, as recorded by Ibn Abi ‘Asim in al-Sunnah. These have been traced in Zilal al-Jannah (1/36–37/72–75). It is also narrated from Ibn ‘Abbas by al-Hakim and others, and its documentation has already appeared under no. 1348, with wording similar to the hadith of Yahya ibn ‘Uthman. See its wording in Sahih al-Jami‘ al-Saghir (4939).

Benefit: His statement, “hadhwa al-qudh-dhati bil-qudh-dhah” (matching one arrow-feather to another), and in Sahl’s hadith, “hadhwa al-na‘li bil-na‘l” (matching one sandal to another). It states in al-Nihayah:

“That is, you will do deeds like theirs, just as one sandal is cut according to the dimensions of the other. Hadhw means measuring and cutting.”