I say: This chain of transmission is authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Hārūn ibn Saʿd also corroborated him, saying: “I heard Abū Ḥāzim al-Ashjaʿī …” Aḥmad also transmitted it (2/493).

This Abū Ḥāzim al-Ashjaʿī was Salamah ibn Dīnār al-Aʿraj. Al-Mizzī listed him among those who narrated from Abū Hurayrah (34/375), indicating that he appears in al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and the four Sunan compilers.

Hārūn ibn Saʿd—al-ʿIjlī—was one of Muslim’s narrators: truthful, though accused of Shiʿite tendencies.

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī narrated it from Ibn Fuḍayl, from his father, from Abū Ḥāzim, with the same chain, adding:

“I met ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim, a client of Abū Bakr, and mentioned that to him. He said, ‘That was a man who used to beg from people in order to amass wealth.’”

Al-Bayhaqī transmitted it in al-Shuʿab (3/271/3515).

This ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Qāsim was a Successor of unknown standing; no one deemed him reliable except Ibn Ḥibbān. Thus, this addition is attributed only to a Successor and is not authentic.

As for Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmanī, al-Dhahabī said in al-Mughnī:

“A hadith master, but his narrations are rejected. Ibn Maʿīn and others nevertheless declared him reliable, while Aḥmad said: ‘He used to lie openly.’ Al-Nasāʾī said: ‘Weak.’”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb:

“A hadith master, except that they accused him of appropriating hadith.”