with the informant in the reports of al-Ṭabarānī and Abū Nuʿaym identified as ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUbaydah. He was a trustworthy Successor; thus, the defect lies with his brother, Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah. For this reason—and Allah knows best—al-Haythamī identified no defect in it other than him.

Al-Khaṭīb also narrated it, in abbreviated form, in al-Tārīkh (9/70), on the authority of Jābir. He declared it defective on account of Saʿīd ibn Zakariyyā al-Madāʾinī, concerning whom Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said:

“Nothing of consequence.”

I say: His shaykh was al-Zubayr ibn Saʿīd al-Hāshimī, of whom al-Ḥāfiẓ said:

“Weak in hadith.”

After also attributing it to Ibn Shāhīn and Ibn ʿAsākir, al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Suyūṭī said in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (1/408):

“Ibn Shāhīn said: ‘It is a singular hadith. I know of no one who transmitted it except Saʿīd ibn Zakariyyā from al-Zubayr ibn Saʿīd. The well-known hadith is that of al-Shaʿbī, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr.’”

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3362—(Whoever hoards goods in order to raise their price for the Muslims is sinful.)

Aḥmad (2/354) and Ibn ʿAdī (7/54) narrated it through Abū Maʿshar, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.

I say: This chain of transmission is good for corroborative purposes.

Abū Maʿshar—whose name was Najīḥ al-Sindī—was weak, but his weakness does not preclude using him as supporting evidence. This is what al-Haythamī meant in al-Majmaʿ (4/101):