Ahmad 1529

Its chain is sahih. Kathir bin Zayd Aslami Madani is trustworthy. Ahmad said, "I see no harm in him." Ibn Main said, "Salih." Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators. Bukhari gave him a biographical entry in al-Kabir 4/1/216 and mentioned no criticism of him. Ibn Hazm went to an extreme and claimed that he was to be discarded, that narrating from him was not permissible, and accused him of lying. He erred, mistaking him for Kathir bin Abdullah bin Amr bin Awf, and so confused the two.As for Muttalib, he is Ibn Abdullah bin Muttalib bin Hantab, a trustworthy Follower. Bukhari gave him a biographical entry at 4/2/8, number 1944, though he did not mention his full lineage there. He said, "Muttalib bin Abdullah heard from a man among the companions of the Prophet ﷺ," and he narrated from Abu Musa, Umm Salama, and Ayesha, while Umar bin Abu Amr and Kathir bin Zayd narrated from him, and he was from Madinah. Bukhari distinguished him from Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab Qurashi, who heard from Umar, giving him a separate entry at 4/2/7, number 1942.In my view, both of these are different from Muttalib bin Hantab, for whom Shafii narrated hadiths from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I hold that he was a companion, and I have established this in detail in my commentary on al-Risalah, number 306. Al-Tahdhib has confused these individuals, or at least confused the first with the second.This hadith carries the same meaning as number 1441, but there the narrator is Amir bin Saad, and the one the statement is addressed to is Umar bin Saad, the reverse of what appears here. So perhaps these are two separate incidents, or perhaps Kathir bin Zayd made an error in memorizing the story correctly.