Ahmad 5582

Its isnad is sahih. Musa bin Tariq Abu Qurra was a trustworthy shaikh among the shaikhs of Ahmad, and Ahmad spoke well of him. In Tahdheeb it says Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators and said, he was among those who compiled, authored, studied jurisprudence, and engaged in scholarly discussion, though he would sometimes report unusual things. I say (the speaker being Ibn Hajar), he authored a book of Sunan, arranged by chapters, in one volume, which I have seen. He does not say in his narration "he told us," but rather says, "so-and-so mentioned." Daraqutni was asked about that, and he said, his books had been affected by some defect, so he was cautious about explicitly claiming to have been told directly. Masud reported from Hakim that he was trustworthy and reliable. Khalili said, he was an old and trustworthy authority.Zubayd, with a fatha on the za, is a well-known city in Yemen. Al-Husayb, with a damma on the ha and a fatha on the sad (both being the plain, undotted letters), is the name of the city of Zubayd. Originally Zubayd was the name of the valley, and Husayb was its city, but then the name of the valley came to predominate over the name of the city. In the three manuscripts here it appears as al-Khusayb with the dotted kha, which is a mistake and a scribal corruption despite its occurrence in all three original sources. Yaqut vocalized it correctly, with the plain ha and sad, in Mujam al-Buldan, page 288, and it is likewise vocalized in writing in Sifat Jazirat al-Arab by Hamdani, page 53, line 24, and page 119, line 17, where he says, "and al-Husayb is the village of Zubayd, and it belongs to the Ashariyyin, and the Banu Wafid of Thaqif mixed with them in the peninsula." He also says, "a village named after the valley, which is al-Husayb, and it is the homeland of al-Husayb bin Abdu Shams, and it is a district of Tihamah." See also Sharh al-Qamus by Zubaydi, 1:215.As for the statement of Imam Ahmad that he was a judge for them, in Tahdheeb it appears as "qadiyan" (a judge), and that is a printing error, which should be corrected based on this passage. This hadith is a repetition of 5520.