In al-Zawāʾid (folio 231/2, al-Maktab al-Islāmī photocopy), it states:

“The chain of transmission of the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd is authentic; its narrators are trustworthy.”

I say: It is as he said. Although ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib became confused in his later years, Sufyān in Ibn Mājah’s narration—namely al-Thawrī—narrated from him before that occurred.

Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh also narrated it from him, as recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (1394). He is trustworthy and one of the narrators relied upon by the two Shaykhs. ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd likewise narrated it from him; al-Ḥākim recorded it in al-Mustadrak (4/196). He is trustworthy and one of al-Bukhārī’s narrators.

The hadith has a corroborating report narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, with the wording: “Indeed, Allah has not sent down any disease …” It has been referenced in Takhrīj al-Ḥalāl (293).

452 — “Whatever you feed yourself is charity for you; whatever you feed your child is charity for you; whatever you feed your wife is charity for you; and whatever you feed your servant is charity for you.”

Aḥmad recorded it (4/131): Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās narrated to us; he said: Baqiyyah narrated to us; he said: Buḥayr ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdī Karib, attributed to the Prophet.

He then recorded it (4/132): al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ narrated to us; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Buḥayr ibn Saʿd, with the same report.

I say: This is an authentic chain through the narrations of Baqiyyah and Ibn ʿAyyāsh from Buḥayr, and all its remaining narrators are unanimously considered trustworthy.

The hadith was cited in al-Majmaʿ (4/119), where he said: