Ahmad 5568

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Muhammad bin Yaqub is Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abu Yaqub Qummi, whose reliability was already established at [1745]. It should be added here that Shubah said, "He was the chief of Banu Tamim." Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari 7:77 that he is trustworthy by consensus, and he also said there, at 10:357, "He was a Kufan devoted worshiper, and they agreed on his reliability. Ibn Abu Khaythama alone diverged, reporting from Ibn Main that he had declared him daif." Bukhari gave his biography in Kabir 1/1/127."Ibn Abu Naeem" This is how it appears in all three original manuscripts here, but it is an error. The correct form is "Num," with a dammah on the nun and no vowel following the ayn. This is how Hafiz vocalized it in Fath al-Bari and Taqrib, and Qastallani in his commentary on Bukhari, and others, and I have found no disagreement on this point. I do not know who is responsible for the mistake, but in my view it is an old error, since all three manuscripts agree on it. It may go back to Qutayi, or to one of the later transmitters of the Musnad, because Bukhari narrated it through Ghundar, who is Muhammad bin Jafar, Ahmad's teacher here, from Shubah, and there it appears as "Num" with no vowel on the ayn. Bukhari narrated the hadith at 7:77-78 through Ghundar from Shubah, and at 10:357 through Mahdi bin Maymun from Ibn Abu Yaqub. See also Qastallani 6:110. Tirmidhi also narrated it at 4:339, 340 through Jareer bin Hazim from Ibn Abu Yaqub, and said, "The hadith is sahih." Shubah narrated it from Muhammad bin Abu Yaqub.Hafiz said in the first passage, "Ibn Umar related this in astonishment at how eager the people of Iraq were to ask about trivial matters while neglecting weighty ones!" And he said in the second passage, "It appears that Ibn Umar did not mean that particular man specifically, but rather intended to draw attention to the harshness of the people of Iraq and the prevalence of ignorance among them compared to the people of Hijaz."