Ahmad 3551

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Mughira is Ibn Miqsam Asadi. Abu Razeen, with fatha on the raa and kasra on the zaa, is Masud bin Malik, and he is a trustworthy tabii. He is different from Masud bin Malik Abu Razeen, the freedman of Saeed bin Jubayr, the companion of Ibn Masud. The former is early, while the freedman of Saeed is later, and the distinction between the two has been established in Tahdhib. Bukhari also distinguished between them in al-Kabir 4/1/423, but he mentioned the companion of Abdullah bin Masud under the name Masud Abu Razeen Asadi without mentioning his father's name, and he did the same in Tarikh Saghir 111. This confusion between the two led some to think they were one and the same, to the point that Shuba denied that Abu Razeen had heard from Ibn Masud, thinking that he was the same person who narrates from Saeed bin Jubayr. See Maraseel by Ibn Abu Hatim, 74.What confirms that they are two different people is what Bukhari related in the two histories on the authority of Yahya Qattan, he said, Abu Bakr Sarraj told us, he said, "Abu Razeen was older than Abu Waail, and he was knowledgeable about both of them." Abu Waail is Shaqiq bin Salama Asadi, who is early and lived during the pre-Islamic era.Bukhari related the hadith, 9:81, in similar wording, through the route of Amash, from Ibrahim, from Ubayda, from Ibn Masud. Ibn Kathir also transmitted it in Fadail Quran, 77, from Bukhari, and said, "It was related by the group except Ibn Majah, through the narration of Amash," with the same wording.