Ahmad 6533

Its chain of transmission is sahih. The discussion of this has already been given in detail in the Musnad of Abdullah bin Umar bin Khattab, in hadith 4583, where Ahmad narrated it there with the same meaning within a hadith attributed to Ibn Umar, narrated from him by Qasim bin Rabia as well. There we said the following.Ahmad narrated it in 6533 and 6552, in the Musnad of Abdullah bin Amr bin As, from Muhammad bin Jafar, from Shuba, from Ayub, "I heard Qasim bin Rabia narrating from Abdullah bin Amr." Nasai likewise narrated it, 2:247, and Daraqutni, 332, by way of Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi, and Ibn Majah, 2:71, by way of Abdul-Rahman and Muhammad bin Jafar, both of them, meaning Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi and Muhammad bin Jafar, from Shuba, with this same chain.Abu Dawud, 4:310, of Awn al-Mabud, pointed to this chain, saying, "Ayub Sakhtiyani narrated it from Qasim bin Rabia from Abdullah bin Amr." This is a sahih, connected chain, and its narrators are reliable and precise memorizers.So either Qasim bin Rabia narrated it both from Abdullah bin Umar bin Khattab and from Abdullah bin Amr bin As, narrating it both ways, once from one and once from the other, or the hadith is really the hadith of Ibn Amr bin As, and Ali bin Zayd bin Jadan erred in attributing it to Ibn Umar bin Khattab, since Ayub Sakhtiyani is a more precise and reliable memorizer than Ibn Jadan. The first view is, in my judgment, the stronger one.See also hadith 5805, and the supplement 1553.