“My father ordered a dish of kharīzah—a meat-and-flour dish—to be prepared. Then he instructed me to take it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. I came to him while he was in his home, and he said to me, ‘What have you brought, O Jābir? Is this meat?’ I replied, ‘No.’ Then I went to my father, and he said, ‘Did you see the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘Did you hear him say anything?’ I replied, ‘Yes. He said to me: “What have you brought, O Jābir? Is this meat?”’ He said, ‘Perhaps the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, desired some.’ So he ordered that a domestic sheep be slaughtered and roasted, then instructed me to take it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. The Prophet said to me, ‘What have you brought, O Jābir?’ So I informed him, and he then cited it.”

I say: This is a chain of transmission whose narrators are trustworthy, apart from Ibn Sumaynah, whom I did not recognize at the time. Then I found that Ibn al-Sunnī recorded the hadith in The Deeds of the Day and Night (271), saying: “Abū Yaʿlā informed us: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Sumaynah narrated to us.” Thus, we identified him, and he is truthful, as stated in al-Taqrīb. The chain is therefore sound, praise be to Allah.

It also has corroboration. Abū Yaʿlā said immediately afterward: “Aḥmad ibn al-Dawraqī narrated to us: Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd narrated to us through the same chain, with similar wording.”

This al-Dawraqī—with the dāl bearing a fatḥah—is Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nakrī of Baghdad, a trustworthy hadith master and one of Muslim’s shaykhs. Thus, the hadith is authentic, praise be to Allah. Al-Nasāʾī also transmitted it, as stated in Ibrāhīm’s biographical notice in al-Tahdhīb.

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Muqaddam also corroborated him: “Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd narrated to us through the same chain.” Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in Akhbār Iṣfahān (2/285), through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Suwādah, from him.

This is a strong corroboration, for Ibn Muqaddam—with the dāl doubled—is truthful and among the narrators of the Sunan collections. Ibn Suwādah is likewise truthful, as stated in The History of Baghdad (9/373).

I then found it in al-Ḥākim’s Mustadrak (4/111–112), by way of al-Nasāʾī and others, from Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, who said: “My father narrated to us through this chain.” However, the mention of his grandfather is omitted from its chain of transmission.