who said: Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, known as Sahib al-Baz (!), told us: al-Aʿmash narrated to us from Zayd ibn Wahb, from Umar ibn al-Khattab, tracing it back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said:

“No one narrates it from al-Aʿmash except through this route.”

I say: It is weak because this Ishaq is unknown, and Ibn al-Wathiq has been declared weak, as may be seen in al-Mizan and Lisan al-Mizan.

Moreover, the wording, “The best generation ...,” is rejected, for the established wording in the authentic hadiths is, “The best of people ...,” in the two Sahihs and elsewhere. The documentation of some of them has already preceded under nos. 699 and 700.

Note: The name of the father of Hammad ibn Yazid was corrupted in al-Tayalisi’s Musnad as “Zayd”! Its compiler, Shaykh Ahmad al-Banna al-Saʿati, did not notice this in two places in Minhah al-Maʿbud (2/71 and 199). May Allah the Exalted have mercy on him.

The name of Abu Dawud, who narrated from Hammad ibn Yazid, was omitted from the chain of transmission in Kashf al-Astar, and its editor, Shaykh al-Aʿzami—may Allah the Exalted have mercy on him—did not notice it. *

3432—“Blessed is he; then blessed is he; then blessed is he.” Meaning: one who believes in him, peace and blessings be upon him, without having seen him.

Ahmad narrated it (4/152—Musnad of Uqbah ibn Amir): Muhammad ibn Ubayd told us; Muhammad—that is, Ibn Ishaq—told us; Yazid ibn Abi Habib told me, from Mirthad ibn Abdullah al-Yazani, from Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Juhani, who said:

While we were with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, two riders came into view. When he saw them, he said:

“Two Kindites of Madhhij.”