- What detracts from it is that al-Nasa’i recorded it (7276) through Ibn al-Mubarak, and al-Bayhaqi through Sulayman ibn Bilal, both from Yahya ibn Sa‘id, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to a man from Aslam … [and he mentioned] the hadith as a mursal report.
Al-Bayhaqi said:
“This is more authentic than the preceding one.”
I say: They added—except for Ahmad—that Yahya said: “I then related this hadith in a gathering attended by Yazid ibn Nu‘aym ibn Hazzal al-Aslami, and he said: ‘Hazzal was my grandfather, and this hadith is true.’”
- Malik recorded in al-Muwatta’ (3/39), from Yahya ibn Sa‘id, from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyab, who said:
“It has reached me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to a man from Aslam, called Hazzal: ‘O Hazzal! Had you concealed him with your cloak, it would have been better for you.’”
Yahya ibn Sa‘id then mentioned it as in the narration of the three from him.
Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr said after it:
“There is no disagreement concerning its chain of transmission in al-Muwatta’: it is mursal, as you see; yet it has continuous chains to the Prophet through authentic routes.”
That is what he said! Yet none of the preceding routes is an authentic report with a continuous chain to the Prophet, as has already been explained in a systematic arrangement and critical examination that perhaps cannot be found elsewhere—except for the first route, which is fair, subject to the foregoing disagreement over Nu‘aym ibn Hazzal’s Companionship and his son’s being the sole narrator from him.