After it, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad said:

“Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Sammān also narrated it to us. He said: Ṣadaqah ibn Abī Sahl al-Hunāʾī narrated to us …”

ʿAbd Allāh said: “Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik erred in the name of the shaykh, saying, ‘Sahl ibn Abī Ṣadaqah,’ whereas it is actually ‘Ṣadaqah ibn Abī Sahl al-Hunāʾī.’”

I say: This is correct, for Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Sammān—besides being trustworthy (see the preceding hadith, 3154)—was corroborated by several others. Al-Bukhārī said in al-Tārīkh (2/2/297/2891), under the entry for Ṣadaqah ibn Abī Sahl al-Baṣrī:

“Kathīr Abū al-Faḍl heard from him, and Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm and Qutaybah narrated from him. Abū Kāmil said: Ṣadaqah narrated to us; Kathīr narrated to us, from Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām: ‘I came to Abū al-Dardāʾ during the illness in which he died.’”

I strongly think that this Abū Kāmil was Faḍīl ibn Ḥusayn al-Jaḥdarī, who was trustworthy. Al-Mizzī mentioned in his biography that:

“Al-Bukhārī cited him in a suspended report, and Muslim, and … and …” (1)

He was also corroborated by Khālid ibn Khidāsh, who was likewise trustworthy and one of Muslim’s shaykhs. Al-Ṭabarānī said in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (6/14/5022): Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Azdī narrated to us; he said: Khālid ibn Khidāsh narrated to us; he said: Ṣadaqah ibn Abī Sahl, Abū Sahl al-Hunāʾī, narrated to us; he said: Kathīr Abū al-Faḍl narrated to me, from Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, who said: