I say: This is a rejected chain of transmission, perhaps because of Ibn Isḥāq’s unqualified “from” transmission.
Muslim also recorded it through a route from Ibn Isḥāq, who said: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb related to me, from Khayr ibn Nuʿaym al-Ḥaḍramī, from ʿAbdullāh ibn Hubayrah al-Sabāʾī—who was trustworthy—from Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī, from Abū Baṣrah al-Ghifārī, who said:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led us in the afternoon prayer ... with similar wording.
Of the same kind is what ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated in al-Muṣannaf (1/579/2209), from Ibn Abī Sabrah, from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū Naṣrah al-Ghifārī, who said: ... He then cited a similar version of the hadith, adding:
“It was given preference over all other prayers by twenty-six (!) degrees.”
I say: This is how he named him: Abū Naṣrah, with a ṣād and a nūn! It is rejected both in its chain of transmission and its text. Its flaw lies with Ibn Abī Sabrah—namely, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Sabrah. There is disagreement concerning his name, and he was accused of fabricating hadiths. *
- “Allah’s right Hand is full; expenditure does not diminish it, ever-flowing night and day. Have you considered what He has spent since He created the heaven and the earth? Yet that which is in His right Hand has not diminished.” He said: “His Throne is upon the water, and in His other Hand is withholding; He raises and lowers.”
I say: It is a hadith of Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, and it has two chains from him:
The first: from Hammām ibn Munabbih—the brother of Wahb ibn Munabbih—who said: This is what Abū Hurayrah related to us. He said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... He then cited the hadith.
It was recorded by Muslim (3/78) and Aḥmad (2/313).