The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he mentioned it.
It was recorded by al-Bukhari in al-Kunā, from al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (p. 6); al-Tirmidhi; al-Darimi (2/102); al-Hakim (2/397–398); Ahmad (3/497); al-Nasa’i likewise in Majlisayn min al-Amālī (folio 58/2); al-Dulabi in al-Kunā (1/15); al-‘Uqayli in al-Du‘afā’ (339); al-Khatib in al-Mūḍiḥ (2/94); and al-Baghawi in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (3/190/2), through various routes from Sufyan, with it.
Al-Tirmidhi said: “This is a singular hadith by this route. We know it only through the hadith of Sufyan al-Thawri from Abdullah ibn Isa.”
I say: Both are trustworthy narrators relied upon in the two Sahih collections. Its defect lies only with this Ata, whose status seems to have been unknown to al-Tirmidhi; otherwise, he would have declared it defective on his account, as al-‘Uqayli did. Indeed, it is reported from al-Bukhari that he said of him: “His hadith is not established.”
Al-‘Uqayli said: “This is the one in question, and it has also been narrated through another chain of transmission, which is likewise weak.”
Al-Dhahabi said in al-Mizan, mentioning this hadith of his: “Al-Bukhari deemed his hadith weak; it is not known who he is.”
Yet al-Dhahabi then forgot this, for when al-Hakim said after the hadith, “Its chain of transmission is authentic!” he concurred with him.
- The hadith of Abu Hurayrah.
It is narrated by Abdullah ibn Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi, who said: “I heard my grandfather narrate from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, with it.”