I say: Al-Hakim cited this hadith in two places in al-Mustadrak (4/198–199, 399–401), with both wordings: that of al-Tabarani and that to which al-Mundhiri alluded. It seems that al-Mundhiri, may Allah have mercy on him, did not come across the first wording in al-Mustadrak; otherwise, he would not have followed it with the remark he mentioned. For al-Hakim said after it:
“Abu al-Hasan, al-Daraqutni, said: ‘ʿAli ibn al-Aqmar and Mujahid also narrated from Usamah ibn Sharik.’”
If it is said: This contradicts al-Hakim’s statement, “because Usamah had only one narrator,” I say: Yes, it does contradict it—assuming that al-Mundhiri’s quotation from al-Hakim is accurate verbatim. But this is not so. The exact wording is:
“Neither of the two recorded it, and the hidden defect they saw in it was that Usamah ibn Sharik had no narrator other than Ziyad ibn ʿAlaqah.”
By his words, “they saw,” he indicated that this was not al-Hakim’s own view. He clarified this in the second place, as I mentioned above. And Allah knows best.
Ibn Majah (2/339–340), al-Tayalisi (no. 1233), and Ahmad (4/278) also narrated it, through several chains from Ziyad ibn ʿAlaqah, with the second wording. Their versions contain an additional phrase at its beginning; see: “Seek treatment, servants of Allah.”
- “Whoever is killed beneath a banner of blind partisanship, calling to factionalism or supporting factionalism, dies a death characteristic of the Age of Ignorance.”
Muslim (6/22), al-Nasaʾi (2/177), and al-Tayalisi (p. 177, no. 1259) narrated it on the authority of Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Bajali.