Ahmad 4787

Its isnad is sahih. Abu Tuma, with a damma on the ta and a sukun on the ain (both plain, undotted letters), his name was Hilal, and he was a freedman of Umar bin Abdul-Aziz. Abu Hatim said, "The Quran reciter of Egypt." Ibn Ammar Mawsili said, "Abu Tuma is trustworthy." Abu Ahmad and Hakim said, "Makhul accused him of lying." The Hafiz commented on this in Tahdheeb 12:137, saying, "Makhul did not accuse him of lying in the technical sense. Rather, Walid bin Muslim narrated from Ibn Jabir that Abu Tuma told Makhul something, so Makhul said, 'Leave him, he lies.' It is possible that Makhul was actually criticizing someone above Abu Tuma in the chain." I say, the apparent and stronger view is that this is the kind of talk peers say about one another, as has happened and continues to happen among scholars.Bukhari gave him an entry in Kabir 2/4/209, saying, "Hilal, freedman of Umar bin Abdul-Aziz bin Marwan bin Hakam Qurashi. Abdul-Aziz bin Umar narrated from him." He also gave him an entry in Kuna 403, saying, "Abu Tuma. Abdul-Aziz bin Umar said, 'He is a freedman of ours, he heard from Ibn Umar.'" So he did not mention any criticism of him in either place, and this is sufficient to establish his reliability.Abdul-Rahman bin Abdullah Ghafiqi was the governor of Andalus. In Tahdheeb, Uthman Darimi and Ibn Main said, "I do not know him." Ibn Adi said, "If Ibn Main does not know a man, then he is unknown, and one cannot rely on someone else's knowledge of him." Ibn Yunus said, "Abdullah bin Iyad narrated from him. The Romans killed him in Andalus in the year 115." He has one hadith in the two books, condemning wine. By "the two books" he means Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah, and by "the hadith" he means this very hadith.Then the Hafiz responded to Ibn Adi's statement, saying, "What Ibn Adi mentioned, he said in the entry on Abdul-Rahman bin Adam, following Ibn Main's statement in each of the two cases, 'I do not know him,' and the author, meaning Hafiz Mizzi, endorsed him on this. But this does not hold in every case, for there may be a man whom Ibn Main did not know to be trustworthy and upright, yet someone else knew him. As for mere recognition of the person, there is no obstacle to that."This man, meaning Abdul-Rahman Ghafiqi, was indeed known by Ibn Yunus, who is the authority on the people of Egypt and the Maghrib. Ibn Khalfun listed him among the trustworthy, saying, "He was an upright man of good conduct, martyred fighting the Franks in the month of Ramadan."The hadith was narrated by Ibn Majah 2:171-172 through Waki with similar wording, and Abu Dawud narrated it 3:366 with similar wording, also through Waki, but in his version it reads, "from Abu Alqama, their freedman." His commentator in Awn al-Mabud quoted from Mizzi in Atraf, saying, "This is how Abu Ali Lului alone reported it from Abu Dawud, 'Abu Alqama,' while Hasan bin Abd and more than one other narrator reported from Abu Dawud, 'Abu Tuma,' which is the correct version. Ahmad bin Hanbal and others likewise narrated it from Waki."The hadith will also come again with this same isnad at 5391, and it will come through Ibn Lahia from Abu Tuma alone at 5390. In H and M it reads "al-khamrah," and we have adopted what is in K. Umdat Tafsir 4:90, Maidah.