“I wonder which of you will be the rider of the shaggy camel, whom the dogs of Hawʾab will bark at, while many are killed on her right and on her left; then she will escape after having nearly perished.”

Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy. This is what al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (7/234), as did al-Ḥāfiẓ in Fatḥ al-Bārī (13/45). However, Ibn Abī Ḥātim cited it in al-ʿIlal (2/426) through the route of al-Ashajj, from ʿUqbah ibn Khālid, from Ibn Qudāmah—that is, ʿIṣām—from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, with the same wording. He said: “My father said: No one other than ʿIṣām narrated this hadith. It is a rejected hadith, and it is not narrated through any other route.”

I say: Regarding this ʿIṣām, Ibn Abī Ḥātim stated in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (3/2/25), on the authority of his father: “He was a Kufan concerning whom there is no objection.” Abū Zurʿah and Abū Dāwūd said the same. Ibn Maʿīn said: “Acceptable.” Al-Nasāʾī said: “Trustworthy.” Ibn Ḥibbān included him among the trustworthy narrators.

I say: No one declared him weak; thus, someone of his calibre constitutes proof. The rest of the narrators are trustworthy as well, as al-Haythamī and al-Ḥāfiẓ explicitly stated. The chain is therefore authentic. In my view, there is no basis for Abū Ḥātim’s calling it “a rejected hadith,” unless by this he meant that it was a hadith—