Ahmad 3670

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Umar bin Saad Abu Dawud Hafari is trustworthy, a precise memorizer, and reliable. Abu Dawud said, "He was extremely dignified." Hafari, with the ha and fa vowelled with fatha, is a designation referring to Hafr Sabee, a place in Kufa. Sabee, with the sin vowelled with fatha, is the name of a tribe. In one manuscript it appears as Hadari with a dad, but this is a scribal error.Abu Abdul-Rahman here refers to Sulami.This hadith was narrated by Ibn Majah at length, 1:8, through the route of Ibn Awn, from Muslim Butayn, from Ibrahim Taymi, from his father, from Amr bin Maymun.Sindi said, "This hadith was narrated uniquely by the compiler." And in Zawaid it states, "Its chain of transmission is sahih, both Bukhari and Muslim relied on all of its narrators." It was also narrated by Hakim through the route of Ibn Awn as stated.I say, there is disagreement regarding the transmission from Muslim bin Imran Butayn. It has been said that he narrated from Abu Ubayda, from Abdullah bin Masud, and it has also been said that he narrated from Abu Abdul-Rahman Sulami, and it has also been said that he narrated from Ibrahim Taymi. It appears in Mustadrak, 3:314, in a shortened form, through the route of Abu Umays, from Muslim Butayn, from Amr bin Maymun. Hakim graded it sahih according to the criteria of Bukhari and Muslim, and Dhahabi agreed with him.I am concerned that something may have dropped out of the chain as recorded by Hakim, namely "from Ibrahim Taymi, from his father," which should appear between Muslim Butayn and Amr bin Maymun.In any case, the difference between the version in Musnad and the version in Ibn Majah is not truly a contradiction. It appears most likely that Muslim Butayn heard both hadiths, the one in Musnad from Abu Abdul-Rahman Sulami, and the one in Ibn Majah from Ibrahim Taymi, and both are sahih.