and also by al-Fasawī’s and Ibn Shāhīn’s declaring him trustworthy, as well as by the fact that five trustworthy narrators reported from him, as I have established in my new book, Taysīr al-Intifāʿ (Facilitating Benefit). May Allah make its completion easy.
I then found the hadith in Kashf al-Astār ʿan Zawāʾid al-Bazzār (3/230/2637): Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Abū Usāmah and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Saʿd, through his chain of transmission from Jābir, a similar report, worded:
“Whoever wishes to look at the person who most resembles the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, let him look at al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī.”
Its chain as far as al-Rabīʿ is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.
Perhaps al-Rabīʿ used to narrate two texts through the chain mentioned above: one concerning al-Ḥusayn and the other concerning his brother al-Ḥasan. Allah knows best.
- “O Sufyān ibn Sahl, do not let your garment hang below your ankles, for Allah does not love those who do so.”
Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated it (8/395), and from him Ibn Mājah (3574), Ibn Ḥibbān (1449), Aḥmad (4/246, 250, and 253), and al-Baghawī in al-Jaʿdiyyāt (101/2), through Sharīk, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Ḥuṣayn ibn Qabīṣah, from al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, attributed to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
I say: This is a weak chain of transmission, because of Sharīk’s poor retention—he was Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the judge.
I then found two corroborating reports that reinforce it:
The first is from Abū Umāmah, who said:
While we were with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ʿAmr ibn Zurārah al-Anṣārī joined us, wearing a two-piece garment: