ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kinānī). Ibn Abī Ḥātim gave his biographical notice (4/2/175), citing only his son Abū Ghassān’s narration from him, and mentioned no narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him.
Al-Haythamī did not comment on this chain of transmission, mistakenly supposing that it contained Ḥammād ibn al-Jaʿd, who was mentioned in the first route, as was noted above in connection with it.
- As for the hadith of Abū Ayyūb, it is narrated by ʿAmr ibn Hāshim al-Bayrūtī: al-Haql ibn Ziyād narrated to us, from al-Awzāʿī, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī Sawdah, from Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥaḍramī, from him, in a report traced back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording of the second version, adding:
“For that suffices him.”
Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (4/208/4055) and al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (4/112–113/3170), and said:
“No one narrated it from al-Awzāʿī except al-Haql, and ʿAmr alone narrated it.”
I say: He is truthful but prone to error, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said. Even if his hadith is not deemed good, it should at least be used as corroborative evidence, especially since he has been corroborated in al-Tamhīd (22/311), where it was graded good.
All those above him are reliable narrators included in al-Tahdhīb, except Abū Shuʿayb al-Ḥaḍramī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him through this narration of al-Awzāʿī, but did not mention any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him; thus, he is unknown. Al-Haythamī said:
“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr and al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ, and its narrators have been declared reliable, except for Abū Shuʿayb, the companion of Abū Ayyūb, concerning whom I have found no declaration of reliability or criticism.”
I say: He overlooked the fact that Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the reliable Successors (5/572), but he is not