Ishaq, the brother of Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from him, with wording similar to the hadith of Abu Umamah. He said:
“Ammar ibn Ishaq is not corroborated in his hadith; he is not well known for transmission. The latter part of the hadith has, however, been narrated with a sounder chain of transmission: ‘The best deed is a word of truth before an unjust ruler.’”
- Al-Zuhri
Al-Manawi said that al-Bayhaqi said:
“It has a mursal corroborating report with a good chain of transmission.” He then cited it from al-Zuhri with the wording: “The best jihad is a word of justice before an unjust ruler.”
I say: I did not find this in al-Bayhaqi’s al-Shuʿab as a mursal report from al-Zuhri, but only as the previously mentioned mursal report of Tariq ibn Shihab.
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I then found it in a report transmitted by Bakr ibn Khunays, from Abdullah ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from his father, from his grandfather, attributed to the Prophet. It was transmitted by al-Hakim (3/626), who made no comment on it. Al-Dhahabi declared it weak, and its defect lies in this Bakr, for he is weak.
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“Whoever hangs an amulet has committed shirk.”
It was transmitted by Imam Ahmad (4/156), al-Harith ibn Abi Usamah in his Musnad (155 of its supplementary material), and—through his route—Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Bazzaz al-Baghdadi in A Section of His Hadith (171–172), from ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Mansur, who said: Yazid ibn Abi Mansur narrated to us from Dukhayn al-Hujari, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿAmir al-Juhani:
“A group came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He accepted the pledge of allegiance from nine of them, but held back from one. They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, you accepted the pledge of nine and left this one?’ He replied, ‘He is wearing an amulet.’ He then put in his hand and cut it off, after which he accepted his pledge and said”—then he mentioned the above.