I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are relied upon by the two Shaykhs, except that they recorded Muḥammad—namely, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah al-Laythī al-Madanī—only as a corroborating narrator. He is sound in hadith, as al-Dhahabī said. Thus, the hadith is authentic, praise be to Allah.

It indicates that Abū Salamah had two chains of transmission for it: the first, from Abū al-Raddād, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, as mentioned above; and the other, this one. Likewise, Yazīd ibn Hārūn had two chains for it: one being his previous chain through al-Dastuwāʾī, from ... from Ibn Qāriẓ; and the other being this one.

This is among the hadiths that al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Haythamī overlooked, and so did not include in his book Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid, although it meets his criterion, since Aḥmad alone narrates it, to the exclusion of the Six, in this wording from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah.

As for what al-Ṭabarānī recorded in al-Kabīr (1/118/2), through Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Bakrī al-Jūzajānī, who said: Abū Muṭīʿ al-Balkhī, al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd Allāh, informed us; Shuʿbah informed us, from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ẓabyān, from Jarīr, attributed to the Prophet: “Indeed, Allah wrote in the Mother of the Book, before He created the heavens and the earth: ‘I am the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful. I created the bond of kinship and derived its name from one of My Names. Whoever maintains it, I will maintain My bond with him; and whoever severs it, I will sever My bond with him.’”

I say: This is very weak because of al-Balkhī. The scholars declared him weak, and some of them accused him of lying and fabrication. As for this al-Bakrī, I do not know him.

521 – “Let us go to visit the blind man among Banū Wāqif.” He added: “He was a blind man.”

Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī recorded it in his Muʿjam (folio 133/1): Ibn ʿAffān informed us; Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī informed us, from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Jābir, attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are relied upon by the two Shaykhs, apart from this Ibn ʿAffān, who is al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān al-ʿĀmirī, as is stated elsewhere in the Muʿjam (135/2). He is truthful, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb, and he was corroborated. Al-Silafī also recorded it in al-Ṭuyūriyyāt (folio 174/1) through two other routes from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Juʿfī, with the same wording. He said: