What Is Wrong” (82/1), and said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Sunnah.”

I say: This Yahya ibn Sa‘id was a weak Syrian narrator. A number of narrators differed with him concerning its chain of transmission, and did not mention the unnamed man in it. That is correct.

Among them was al-Walid ibn Muslim, who said: Thawr ibn Yazid narrated to us from Khalid ibn Ma‘dan, from Abu Hurayrah, the same report.

Al-Hakim recorded it (1/21) through the route of Muhammad ibn Abi al-Sari al-‘Asqalani, who said: al-Walid ibn Muslim narrated to us the same report. He said:

“This hadith is authentic according to al-Bukhari’s criteria, for he narrated from Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-‘Asqalani and relied upon Thawr ibn Yazid al-Shami. As for Khalid ibn Ma‘dan’s having heard from Abu Hurayrah, this is not improbable, since al-Walid ibn Muslim related from Thawr ibn Yazid that he said: ‘I met seventeen men from among the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.’”

I say: Al-Hakim’s mind, may Allah have mercy on him, shifted from Muhammad ibn Abi al-Sari al-‘Asqalani to Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-‘Asqalani. Yet Ibn Khalaf has no connection to this hadith, and al-Bukhari did not narrate from him. The narrator in this hadith is Ibn Abi al-Sari, as is explicitly stated in its chain; and he is weak. He is Muhammad ibn al-Mutawakkil ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, Abu ‘Abd Allah Ibn Abi al-Sari. Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Truthful and knowledgeable, but prone to many errors.”

Another was Muhammad ibn ‘Isa ibn Sumay‘, from Thawr ibn Yazid, with the same report.