- “If you pass through a land in which one of the nations was destroyed, then hasten on.”
Abū al-Shaykh recorded it in al-Ṭabaqāt (fol. 52/1), and Abū Nuʿaym narrated it from him in Akhbār Aṣbahān (2/139): Salm ibn ʿIṣām narrated to us: “I found in my father’s book: Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith al-Jarmūzī narrated to me; my father narrated to me; Abū Ghālib narrated to me, from Abū Umāmah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say…” He then cited it.
I say: This is a weak chain of transmission, for Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith is unknown. Ibn Abī Ḥātim listed him (2/1/221) and said:
“He narrated from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb, and ʿĀṣim ibn Kulayb narrated from him.”
He mentioned neither any criticism nor accreditation concerning him. Apparently, he is the same person. Accordingly, he should have included his son Jahwar among those who narrated from him, for he described him as truthful. Perhaps he had not come across this narration.
Then I saw that, in the son’s biographical entry, he mentioned that he narrated from his father.
Ibn Ḥibbān included the father in al-Thiqāt on the basis of his son Jahwar’s narration from him.
As for ʿIṣām, he is Salm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam, Abū Salm ibn ʿIṣām. Abū al-Shaykh said: “He was from the people of Medina. He died in the year 231 AH. His hadith was not transmitted, and he died while still young!” He did not mention any criticism or accreditation concerning him.
In al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (1/82/2), the hadith is attributed to al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr. It is found there (8/333/8068 and 8069) through two other routes from Jahwar ibn Sufyān, with this chain.
Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (10/290):
“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy, though there is disagreement concerning some of them.”