“We set out on the day Ibn Duljah’s army entered Medina, a year after al-Harrah. They entered the city and climbed onto the pulpit, so the people were alarmed. We went out with Jabir to al-Harrah; his eyesight had gone, and he stumbled over a stone. He said, ‘May Allah frighten whoever frightens the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him!’ He said this two or three times before we asked him. We said, ‘O father, who frightened the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?!’ He replied, ‘I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say ...’” Then he mentioned it.

He said:

“No report from Muhammad and Mahmud, the two sons of Jabir, is narrated except through this chain of transmission. Musa ibn Shaybah alone narrated it.”

I say: He is weak in hadith, as stated in al-Taqrib, but this is a good corroborating report for Talib ibn Habib’s hadith.

Ibn Hibban mentioned Muhammad and Mahmud in al-Thiqat, as noted previously under Hadith 2304; thus, each of them strengthens the other.

Al-Bukhari (1/1/53/110), al-Tabarani also in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat (2/54–55/1093), and Ahmad in Fada'il al-Sahabah (2/794/1421) narrated it through Yahya ibn Abd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Abd Allah ibn Anas Abu Zakariyya al-Ansari, who said: Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Abd Allah ibn Amr al-Ansari related to me from his father Jabir, ascribed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, a report like the hadith under discussion.

Al-Haythami said in Majma' al-Zawa'id (10/38):

“Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, as did al-Bazzar. Al-Bazzar’s narrators are narrators of the Sahih, apart from Talib ibn Habib, who is trustworthy. Ahmad narrated something similar, except that he said, ‘Whoever frightens the people of Medina ...’; and Ahmad’s narrators are narrators of the Sahih.”

I say: Ahmad’s wording has an interrupted chain of transmission, as I explained in the place referred to shortly before.