corroboration.

Yazīd ibn Yūsuf—al-Raḥabī, al-Ṣanʿānī, al-Dimashqī—also corroborated him, but he is weak, as stated in al-Taqrīb.

Abū Yaʿlā recorded it. Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab also corroborated him. He said: “Al-Awzāʿī narrated to us the same report,” except that he added at its beginning:

“Allah, the Exalted, chose Ishmael from among the descendants of Abraham, and chose Kinānah from among the descendants of Ishmael …”

Aḥmad and al-Tirmidhī recorded it (2/281), and al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, authentic hadith.”

I say: Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab, al-Qarqasānī, was truthful but made many errors, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Thus, what he alone narrates, in contrast to the trustworthy narrators, is open to question. Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr also corroborated him, but the narrator from him was Sulaymān ibn Abī Sulaymān, al-Zuhrī al-Yamāmī, who was even weaker than al-Qarqasānī. Ibn Maʿīn said: “He is of no account.” Al-Bukhārī said: “His hadith is rejected.” The wording of his hadith differs from all the others:

“Allah chose Abraham from among the descendants of Adam and took him as a close friend. Then He chose Ishmael from among the descendants of Abraham; then He chose Nizār from among the descendants of Ishmael; then He chose Muḍar from among the descendants of Nizār; He chose Kinānah from among the descendants of Muḍar; then He chose Quraysh from Kinānah; He chose the clan of Hāshim from Quraysh; He chose the clan of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib from the clan of Hāshim; and He chose me from the clan of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.”