(11723), Ibn Ḥibbān (163), Ibn Abī Shaybah (11/31), Ibn Naṣr, in al-Ṣalāh (560), al-Lālakāʾī, in Sharḥ Uṣūl Ahl al-Sunnah (1496), Ibn Mandah, in al-Īmān (161), al-Ṭayālisī (27–28), Aḥmad (5/69), al-Ḥumaydī (68), ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd (140), Abū Yaʿlā (733 and 778), al-Haytham al-Shāshī (91), al-Bazzār (1087, al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār), al-Ṭabarī, in Tahdhīb al-Āthār (p. 680, Musnad Ibn ʿAbbās), Abū Nuʿaym, in al-Ḥilyah (6/191), and al-Khaṭīb, in his Tārīkh (3/119), all narrated it through various routes from al-Zuhrī, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from his father, in a report attributed to the Prophet.
Their wordings vary, and the wording given is Aḥmad’s.
Al-Bazzār said after narrating it:
“This statement has been narrated from Saʿd, from ʿAmr ibn Taghlib, and from others besides them. Saʿd’s hadith has an authentic chain of transmission, so we confined ourselves to it.”
I say: His expression, “their ẓalaʿ,” means their deviation from the truth and the weakness of their faith.
It has also been said to mean their sin.
Its original sense is an ailment in an animal’s legs that causes it to limp; thus, a lame man is one who inclines and sins.
This is stated in Ibn al-Athīr’s al-Nihāyah (3/159). *
- “I came out to tell you about the Night of Decree, but so-and-so and so-and-so quarrelled, and knowledge of it was taken away. Perhaps that is better for you. Seek it on the seventh, ninth, and fifth [nights].”
Al-Bukhārī (49, 2023, and 6049) and al-Shāfiʿī, in his Musnad (737),