then al-Suyuti marked it as authentic, and the commentator made no remark about it.

Al-Haythami included it in al-Majmaʿ (The Compendium) (10/273–274), without the final sentence, and said:

“Ahmad and al-Tabarani narrated it, and its chain is good. Al-Tabarani also narrated it in al-Awsat (The Middle Collection), in whose chain is ʿAli ibn Bahram, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: It is not found in the Musnad as a hadith of Jabir; rather, it contains the hadith of Sahl ibn Saʿd and that of Abu Hurayrah, both of which have just preceded. I say this after reviewing, one by one, all of Jabir’s hadiths in the Musnad. Allah knows best the source of this error on al-Haythami’s part. He cited it elsewhere (8/87) without falling into this error, for he said:

“Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat through ʿAli ibn Bahram, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abi Karimah. I do not know either of them, while the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Sahih collections.”

Yet this statement of his contradicts what we previously quoted from him, which generally indicates that ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abi Karimah is trustworthy; whereas here he declares him unknown. He is well known among the narrators of Abu Dawud’s Sunan, and he was truthful and sound. He died in 204 AH—or, it is said, 210 AH—as stated in al-Taqrib (The Abridgment).

The final sentence of it was narrated by al-Qudaʿi in Musnad al-Shihab (101/1) through ʿAli ibn Bahram, who said: “ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abi Karimah informed us, from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAtaʾ, from Jabir,” with the same wording.

ʿAmr ibn Bakr al-Saksaki also followed him in narrating it from Ibn Jurayj. Ibn ʿAsakir recorded it in Tarikh Dimashq (The History of Damascus) (2/420/2). However, this ʿAmr is abandoned.

It also has a corroborating report from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: