Ahmad 1824

Its chain of transmission is daif because of a break in it. Hammad bin Khalid al-Khayyat is trustworthy, and Ahmad's statement will come later in the Musnad 4:151h, "Hammad bin Khalid was a hafiz, he used to narrate to us, and he had a good memory. Both I and Yahya bin Main wrote down hadith from him." Bukhari gave his biography in Tarikh al-Kabir 25/1/2.Ibn Ulatha, with a damma on the ain and a light lam, is Muhammad bin Abdullah Ibn Ulatha, the judge. Bukhari said in Tarikh al-Kabir 2/1/132–133, "He is also called Muhammad bin Ulatha." He is trustworthy but makes mistakes. Ibn Main and Ibn Saad considered him trustworthy, while al-Azdi and others went to excess in weakening him and accusing him of lying. The truth is what Bukhari said, "There is some question about his memory."Maslama al-Juhani, who is Maslama bin Abdullah, I found no criticism of him. In Taqrib it says he is "acceptable" (maqbul). Bukhari gave his biography in Tarikh al-Kabir 388/1/4 without criticizing him, so he is trustworthy. However, he lived too late to have met Fadl bin Abbas, for it is mentioned that he narrates from his uncle Abu Mushjaa bin Rubai and from Umar bin Abdul-Aziz, both of whom belong to the generation of the Tabiin."Fabaraha zabyun" ("a gazelle crossed from right to left") - it says in Nihaya, this comes from "al-barih," the opposite of "al-sanih." "Al-sanih" is what passes in front of you, whether bird or wild game, from your left side toward your right, and the Arabs took it as a good omen because it made shooting and hunting easier. "Al-barih" is what passes from your right toward your left, and the Arabs took it as a bad omen, because you could not shoot it without turning yourself around. See Lisan Arab and our critical edition of Shuara by Ibn Qutayba, p. 337."Ma amdaka aw raddaka" ("what made you go forward or turn back") means whatever affected you and led you either to proceed or to retreat.As for this hadith, despite its weakness, I have not found it anywhere else.