Ahmad 5710

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Abu Malih is Amir bin Usama bin Umayr Hudhali. Ibn Abu Hatim stated this definitively in Jarh wa Tadil 3/1/319, and said, Abu Zura was asked about Abu Malih Hudhali, who narrated from Ibn Abbas, and he said, "He is from Basra, and trustworthy." Dulabi likewise named him thus in Kuna 2:129. Bukhari also related in Saghir 114, from Musa bin Mujahid, then said, Sahl bin Hassan said, "His name is Amir." Ahmad said, on the authority of Abu Ubayda, "His name is bin Umayr Hudhali." Ibn Saad gave his biography in Tabaqat 7/1/159-160 and said, "His name is Amir bin Usama, Zayd bin Usama." Tirmidhi said in Sunan 1:9, "His name is Amir, and it is also said Zayd bin Usama bin Umayr. He was trustworthy and has several hadiths. Ayub and others narrated from him. He died in the year 112."His biography in Tahdhib 12:246 is incomplete, mentioning nothing after his teachers and those who narrated from him. In my view, what came after that was inadvertently dropped from the printed edition, for Hafiz mentioned in Taqrib that he was trustworthy, and in Khulasa it states that Abu Zura confirmed his trustworthiness. Fallas said he died in the year 98, while Ibn Saad said in the year 112. This is something firmly established in the original text of Tahdhib.Usama Hudhali, the father of Abu Malih, was a companion, and he has a few hadiths that will appear in the Musnad (5:24, 74-75). Abu Qilaba Jarmi is Abdullah bin Zayd bin Amr, a well known successor whose trustworthiness was established earlier at 2191, but neither he nor his father has a narration in this particular hadith. His father is not mentioned as a narrator at all, but Abu Malih mentioned to Abu Qilaba that he and his father had gone in to see Ibn Umar, as is clear from the context of the narration here.I have not found this hadith in any place other than this one. It has been established from the hadith of Ayesha that the pillow of the Messenger of Allah was made of leather stuffed with palm fiber, as Bukhari and Muslim related it, along with Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi, see Awn al-Mabud 4:120. Al-adam, with a fatha on the hamza and the dal being unpointed, means leather, and it is a collective noun, its singular being adeem, or it is the plural whose singular is adama.