I say: Both are well-known, leading trustworthy authorities, whose like requires no inquiry; all the remaining narrators are trustworthy narrators of Muslim, apart from Muhammad ibn Adam al-Maṣīṣī, who is himself trustworthy.
There is some criticism concerning Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, but it does not detract from him; thus, the chain of transmission is good.
The fourth route is through Ibn Lahīʿah, from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, from Abū ʿAlī al-Hamadhānī, from ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her.
Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (1/235/362) and said:
“No one narrated it from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith except Ibn Lahīʿah.”
I say: He is weak, but may be used for corroboration in follow-up routes and supporting reports. *
- “When I return to my family and find a date fallen upon my bedding, I pick it up to eat it; then I fear that it may be charity, so I throw it away.”
It is from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, and it has two routes from him:
The first is through Hammām ibn Munabbih:
Al-Bukhārī narrated it from him in suspended form after hadith 2055, and also gave its connected chain in 2432. Muslim likewise recorded it in 1070; as did ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Muṣannaf (1) (6944), with a similar wording, and from him Aḥmad (2/317), within his presentation of Hammām’s Ṣaḥīfah; al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan (5/335) and Shuʿab al-Īmān (5743); al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār (2/10); Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (8/187); and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (1606), through various routes from Maʿmar, from him, with this wording.