Ahmad 5829

Its isnad is sahih. Yaala bin Ubayd Tanafisi, his reliability was already established at 1516, and we add here Ahmad's statement, "He was sahih in his hadith, and he was upright in himself," and also his statement, "Yaala is more sahih in hadith than Muhammad bin Ubayd and more retentive." Bukhari gave his biography in the Kabir, 4/2/419, and the Saghir, 229.In the three source manuscripts it appears as, "Amash, from Ibrahim bin Abu Shatha, said..." and so on, and this is undoubtedly a mistake. Among the narrators whose biographies are before us, from the men of the Six Books and others, there is no one named Ibrahim bin Abu Shatha. In fact, they mentioned no one called Ibn Abu Shatha except Ashath bin Abu Shatha, and he is not the one meant in this isnad.Rather, the correct isnad is what we have stated, "Amash, from Ibrahim, from Abu Shatha." The copyists, or some of the narrators of the Musnad, made an error with the word "from" (an), writing it instead as "ibn" (son of).Ibrahim here is Nakhai, and Abu Shatha is Muharibi Kufi, whose name is Sulaym, with the sin pronounced with damma, bin Aswad bin Hanzala. He was a senior Follower and reliable, deemed trustworthy by Ahmad, Ibn Main, and others. Abu Hatim said, "One does not need to ask about someone like him." Ibn Abdul-Barr said, "They agreed that he is reliable." Bukhari gave his biography in the Kabir, 2/2, 121, 122, and in the Saghir, 89.I am only certain that "Ibrahim bin Abu Shatha" is an error for the reasons I have given, and also because when the Hafiz explained the hadith of Ibn Umar on this same theme, related by Bukhari at 13:149, 150, from the narration of Asim bin Muhammad from his father, "Some people said to Ibn Umar, 'We go in to see our ruler and say to him something different from what we say once we leave his presence!' He said, 'We used to regard this as hypocrisy,'" this is the hadith whose meaning was already given at length at 5373, through the route of Yazid bin Had from Muhammad bin Abdullah. The Hafiz mentioned other narrations of that hadith, one of which was his statement, "It occurs in Ibn Abu Shayba, through the route of Abu Shatha, who said, 'Some people came in to see Ibn Umar and began disparaging Yazid bin Muawiya. He said, "Do you say this to their faces?" They said, "No, rather we praise them and commend them!"'"This is the meaning of the hadith found here. It appears that Ibn Abu Shayba related it at length without mentioning this story at its beginning, so the Hafiz quoted it as a reference to the hadith among the differences he noted in its various narrations, as we mentioned in the commentary on 5373.