Ahmad 2667

Its isnad is sahih. Bara bin Abdullah bin Yazid Ghanawi al-Basri, the judge, is sometimes attributed to his grandfather, and because of this their statements about him became confused. Nasai, in his book on weak narrators, treated him as two separate narrators. He said, "Bara bin Yazid Ghanawi narrates from Abu Nadra, daif." Then he said, "Bara bin Abdullah bin Yazid narrated from Abdullah bin Shaqiq, not to be relied upon, a Basran." Ibn Adi, Ibn Hibban, and others followed him in distinguishing between the two.Ahmad said, "Saeed," meaning Ibn Abu Aruba, "heard from that daif sheikh, Bara bin Abdullah Ghanawi." Others also spoke critically of him.As for Bukhari, he affirmed firmly that he is one and the same narrator. He gave him an entry in Tarikh al-Kabir 1/2/119-120 as "Bara bin Yazid the devout, Ghanawi," and mentioned that he is counted among the Basrans. He then related this hadith as a suspended report, saying, "Muslim and Saeed bin Sulayman said, 'Bara bin Yazid narrated to us, he said, Abu Nadra narrated to us from Ibn Abbas,'" the hadith. After this he said, "Ishaq said to me, 'Ibn Shumayl narrated to us, he said, Bara Abu Yazid Ghanawi narrated to us, he said, Abu Nadra narrated this to us.'"Abu Naeem said, "Bara bin Abdullah Ghanawi the storyteller, of Basra, narrated to us." Ahmad said, "Bara bin Abdullah Ghanawi is more beloved to me than Uqba Asamm." Likewise in Tahdhib 7:244, in the entry on Uqba, Abdullah bin Ahmad said, "My father was asked about Uqba," meaning Asamm, "and he said, 'Bara Ghanawi is more beloved to me than him.'" He did not mention any discrediting of him there, but rather cited this statement of Ahmad's, and he did not list him among the weak narrators. So in his view he is trustworthy or acceptable, and this is the view we adopt.See 2168, 2343.