Ahmad 4452

Its chain of transmission is sahih. The meaning of this has already passed during the Musnad of Ibn Abbas from the hadith of Ibn Umar, no. 2534, via the route of Shuba, from Hakam bin Utayba, from Saeed bin Jubayr, and we pointed to this there.The hadith was narrated by Tirmidhi, 2:101, and Abu Dawud, 2:136–137, both via the route of Ismail bin Abu Khalid, from Abu Ishaq Sabi, from Saeed bin Jubayr. Tirmidhi also narrated it via the route of Sufyan Thawri, from Abu Ishaq, from Abdullah bin Malik, from Ibn Umar. Tirmidhi said, Muhammad bin Bashshar said, Yahya, meaning Ibn Saeed Qattan, said, "The correct one is the hadith of Sufyan." Then Tirmidhi also said, "The hadith of Ibn Umar as narrated by Sufyan is more sahih than the narration of Ismail bin Abu Khalid, and the hadith of Sufyan is hasan sahih." He said, "Israil narrated this hadith from Abu Ishaq, from Abdullah and Khalid, the two sons of Malik, from Ibn Umar. The hadith of Saeed bin Jubayr from Ibn Umar is also hasan sahih, narrated by Salama bin Kuhayl from Saeed bin Jubayr, but as for Abu Ishaq, he only narrated it from Abdullah and Khalid, the two sons of Malik, from Ibn Umar."This is what Tirmidhi said, and he means to fault the narration of Ismail bin Abu Khalid by claiming that the sahih narration is that of Abu Ishaq from Abdullah and Khalid, the two sons of Malik, from Ibn Umar, and that Abu Ishaq did not narrate it from Saeed bin Jubayr, even though it is in itself firmly established from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Umar, apart from the narration of Abu Ishaq! This is the strangest instance of arbitrary faultfinding I have seen. He denies that Abu Ishaq heard it from Saeed, without citing any evidence or even a hint of one for this denial, except that Abu Ishaq narrated it from Abdullah and Khalid. What bearing does that have on the matter? We do not know.The proof that this faultfinding is baseless is that Abu Dawud also narrated it via the route of Sharik, from Abu Ishaq, from Saeed bin Jubayr and Abdullah bin Malik, who both said, "We prayed with Ibn Umar," and so on. So Abu Ishaq combined the two of them together, and in this chain, Sharik corroborates Ismail bin Abu Khalid in reporting that Abu Ishaq narrated it from Saeed bin Jubayr. In this faultfinding, Tirmidhi was merely following his teacher's teacher, Yahya bin Saeed Qattan.It appears that the leading scholars were not satisfied with this faultfinding, for that reason Muslim included the hadith, 1:365, via the route of Ibn Numayr, from Ismail bin Abu Khalid, with the same chain found here, just as he also included it through the narration of Shuba, from Hakam and Salama bin Kuhayl, from Saeed bin Jubayr. Bukhari also narrated the hadith through multiple routes.The narration of Abu Ishaq from Abdullah bin Malik will come at no. 4676.