and all of them are among the narrators covered in al-Tahdhīb, except Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUbaydah al-ʿUṣfurī. I have found neither a biographical notice nor any mention of him in any of the biographical works; nor have they listed him among those who narrated from ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ḥanafī, or among those bearing the nisbah al-ʿUṣfurī. Yet al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (10/66):

“Al-Bazzār reported it. Its chain includes ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād; his hadith is good, though there is some weakness in him, while the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

So I do not know whether this declaration of reliability was intended to include this al-ʿUṣfurī or not.

It appears to me that al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar held the former view, for he said in Mukhtaṣar al-Zawāʾid (2/389–390/2072):

“I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic.”

Indeed, the hadith is authentic, for it was narrated through another chain from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ. Muslim recorded in his Ṣaḥīḥ (8/145), and Aḥmad in his Musnad (2/417): Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Yaʿqūb—meaning Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—narrated to us, from Suhayl, through the same chain, with the wording:

“Among the people of my community who love me most are people who will come after me; one of them would dearly wish to see me, even at the cost of his family and wealth.”

It also has a corroborating report in Aḥmad’s collection, from the hadith of Abū Dharr attributed to the Prophet; its documentation has previously been given in the third volume, no. 1918.

As for what al-Bazzār recorded (2842) through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dāwūd al-Ḥarrānī—who was the brother of ʿAbd al-Ghaffār—ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us from Abū ʿUshānah, who said: I heard Abū al-Yaqẓān ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir say: