He then related it (8/281/7923) through Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from al-Walīd ibn Jamīl, who said: “I heard al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān relate it.”
I say: This Ṣadaqah is weak, while his shaykh, al-Walīd, is better than he is.
I have traced the hadith of al-Maṭraḥ in al-Ḍaʿīfah (5346), for it contains an objectionable element.
- On the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording.
Aḥmad and others also related it through a chain containing ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Marwān, who is unknown, as I explained in al-Ḍaʿīfah (6486). Some of our fellow verifying scholars declared its chain of transmission sound, but they were mistaken, as I noted there.
- On the authority of Muʿādh ibn Jabal, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording:
“I was shown that I was placed in one pan of a balance and my community in another, and I equalled it; then Abū Bakr was placed …”
Al-Ṭabarānī related it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (20/86–87), and Ibn ʿAsākir in al-Tārīkh (11/204), through ʿAmr ibn Wāqid: Yūnus ibn Maysarah narrated to us, from Abū Idrīs, from him.
I say: This ʿAmr is abandoned, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Al-Haythamī said (9/59):
“Al-Ṭabarānī related it, and it contains ʿAmr ibn Wāqid, who is abandoned. The majority declared him weak, though Muḥammad ibn al-Mubārak al-Ṣūrī said: ‘He was truthful.’ The rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”
In conclusion, in light of these supporting reports, the hadith under discussion does not, Allah willing, fall below the rank of good, since most of them are free of severe weakness. And Allah, Most High, knows best.