the correct symbol is q, meaning that it appears in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ, in accordance with the convention he explicitly stated in the introduction.
- The commentator on Musnad Abī Yaʿlā limited himself to saying:
“Its chain of transmission is weak. Sulaym ibn Muslim al-Makkī—Aḥmad said: ‘His hadith is worth nothing!’”
I say: His citing this statement of Aḥmad is inconsistent with limiting himself to that judgment; rather, he should have said, “Very weak,” especially since al-Nasāʾī said of him, as mentioned above: “His hadith is abandoned.”
The commentator on al-Maqṣad al-ʿĀlī followed him in this error of limiting the judgment.
- After merely declaring it weak, the commentator on Abū Yaʿlā said:
“It is corroborated by the hadith of Umm Salamah in al-Bukhārī’s ‘Book of Drinks’ (5634) ... and in Muslim’s ‘Book of Dress’ (2065) ...”
This is due to his heedlessness, inexperience, or laxity, for al-Bukhārī’s version does not contain the word “gold.” Strangely, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar had preceded him in this error in his comments on the hadith in al-Maṭālib al-ʿĀliyah. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī noticed this in al-Targhīb (3/117/1), and therefore distinguished between the version narrated by the two Shaykhs, which lacks this word, and Muslim’s version, which contains it.
Note: Al-Hujaymī has a hadith traced under no. 6542 of al-Ḍaʿīfah. *
3418—(We pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, to hear and obey in hardship and ease, in what pleased us and what we disliked; even when others were given preference over us; not to dispute authority with those entitled to it [unless you see manifest disbelief, concerning which you possess clear proof from Allah]; and to speak the truth wherever we may be, fearing no one’s blame for Allah’s sake.)
It is a hadith of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, may Allah be pleased with him, and it has two chains of transmission from him: