al-Targhib (3/52) that it was weak, along with the hadith under discussion. Yet there is a vast difference between them: this one is fabricated; its defect lies with this Husayn. Al-Daraqutni said:

“He fabricates hadiths.”

And Aban is Ibn Abi ʿAyyash, who is abandoned.

As for the former, you have already seen that it is good.

As was his habit, al-Suyuti remained silent about both of them in al-Durr al-Manthur (1/364), and likewise remained silent about the former in al-Jami al-Kabir. *

3314—(I was weighed against a thousand of my ummah and outweighed them; then they began falling upon me from the pan of the scale.)

Al-Bazzar recorded it in his Musnad (3/116/2372—Kashf al-Astar): Al-ʿAbbas ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzim al-ʿAnbari narrated to us: Al-Nadr ibn Muhammad al-Jurashi narrated to us: ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmar narrated to us from Abu Zumayl, from Malik ibn Marthad, from his father, from Abu Dharr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.

Al-Bazzar said: Through the same chain, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“O Abu Dharr, I saw as though I were weighed against forty, with you among them, and I outweighed them.”

Al-Bazzar also said:

“As for al-Nadr’s hadiths, we know of no one who shared them with him!”

I say: This is inconceivable! Or perhaps there is something amiss in the wording, for al-ʿIjli said in Tarikh al-Thiqat (449/1692):