“They fear that you will die,” he was told. So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came out wearing a cloak draped over his shoulders and a dark head-wrap, until he sat upon the pulpit—this being the last gathering at which he sat. He praised Allah and extolled Him, then said: …” And he cited it.

I say: Al-Bazzar’s chain of transmission is authentic according to al-Bukhari’s conditions, though this escaped al-Haythami.

Its chain is as follows: Ibn Karamah narrated to us: Ibn Musa narrated to us: Ibn al-Ghasil—whose name was Abd al-Rahman—narrated to us, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas …

Al-Haythami then said (10/37):

“Al-Bazzar narrated it from Ibn Karamah, from Ibn Musa. I did not at present know their names, while the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Sahih.”

In his Mukhtasar al-Zawa'id, al-Hafiz commented on this (2/371):

“I say: Ibn Karamah is Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Karamah, and Ibn Musa is Ubayd Allah. Both are among al-Bukhari’s shaykhs in his Sahih, and the chain is according to al-Bukhari’s conditions, for he narrated it from three of his shaykhs, from Ibn al-Ghasil.”

I say: Ibn Saʿd also narrated it in al-Tabaqat (2/252): “Ubayd Allah ibn Musa informed us of it.”

Al-Bazzar then said:

“It has been narrated in similar form through several routes, with differing wordings.”

I say: I shall mention those of them that come readily to hand: