“and faith is Yemeni, and tranquillity is among the people of the Hijaz.”

Al-Bazzār recorded it (3/315, Kashf al-Astār) through Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, who said: “Ibn Abī al-Zinād narrated to us from him.” He said:

“It has been narrated from Jābir by more than one route.”

I say: Through this route, it is weak. Al-Haythamī said (10/53):

“Al-Bazzār narrated it, and it contains Ibn Abī al-Zinād, concerning whom there is disagreement; the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: Yes, but Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways is in no better condition than Ibn Abī al-Zinād—whose name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Ibn Ḥajar, the hadith master, said:

“Truthful, but his memory deteriorated when he came to Baghdad; and he was a jurist.”

And concerning Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, he said:

“Truthful; he made mistakes in hadiths which he narrated from memory.”

In his introduction to al-Bukhārī, he said, in summary:

“No part of his hadith may be relied upon as proof, apart from what is found in the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: I therefore fear that he erred in the text of this hadith and added to it, “and faith is Yemeni.” This has indeed been established in hadiths; see the earlier hadith (1770). It is as though he conflated one hadith with another. Moreover, he also erred by making it read, “and tranquillity is among the people of the Hijaz,” in place of “faith.”

Ibn Lahīʿah also narrated it from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, with the same wording, except that he said:

“Faith and tranquillity are among the people of the Hijaz.”