“An authentic chain of transmission.”

Al-Dhahabī refuted him, saying: “I say: No one knows who al-Ṣaffār is.”

I say: The same applies to Ibn Ashras. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him (1/2/482), through Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Rāshid al-Marwazī’s narration from him, without mentioning any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him. However, two others—Aḥmad ibn Sayyār and Muḥammad ibn al-Layth—also narrated this hadith from him; he is therefore unknown in status.

Al-Haythamī cited the hadith in al-Majmaʿ (9/368), on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās as a report attributed to the Prophet, and said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and it contains weakness.”

Its first part has another route from Jābir. Abū Ḥammād al-Ḥanafī narrated it from Ibn ʿAqīl, who said: “I heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh relate it as a report attributed to the Prophet,” in an account of the killing of Ḥamzah, may Allah be pleased with him.

Al-Ḥākim narrated it (2/119–120) and said: “An authentic chain of transmission.”

Al-Dhahabī refuted him, saying: “Abū Ḥammād is al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ṣadaqah. Al-Nasāʾī said: ‘Abandoned.’”

It also has a corroborating report from the hadith of ʿAlī, attributed to the Prophet with the same wording. Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (1/300/2), through ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥazwar, who said: Al-Aṣbagh ibn Nubātah informed us; he said: I heard ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib say—and he then cited it.

I say: This is a very weak chain of transmission, for ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥazwar and his teacher al-Aṣbagh are both abandoned, as