Ahmad 7058

It has two chains of transmission, one of them connected and sahih, and the other one is mursal and daif. Hammad bin Salama narrated it from Dawud bin Abu Hind and Habib al-Muallim, both of them from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, as a raised (marfu) hadith. This is connected and sahih.Hammad also narrated it from Qays, and it appears to me that this is Qays bin Saad al-Makki, from Mujahid, as a raised hadith, though there is doubt about whether it was actually raised back to Mujahid. So it contains the defect of being mursal along with the defect of doubt regarding its being raised, making it daif due to these two defects.Qays bin Saad al-Makki, his reliability was established earlier at 1806, and we add here that Bukhari included his biography in al-Kabir 4/1/154. This hadith has appeared earlier with a similar meaning within a longer hadith at 6681 and 6933, and we documented this meaning in the first of them. Its meaning has also appeared earlier in brief form through the narration of Abu Awana from Dawud bin Abu Hind at 6727, and through the narration of Abdul-Warith from Dawud at 6728.As for the wording found here, it matches the narration of Abu Dawud al-Sijistani in his Sunan, 3546:3/317 in Awn al-Mabud, and the narration of Hakim in al-Mustadrak, 2/47, both of them through the route of Hammad bin Salama from Dawud bin Abu Hind and Habib al-Muallim, from Amr bin Shuayb, with this same chain. Hakim said, "A hadith sahih in its chain, though the two of them (Bukhari and Muslim) did not include it." Dhahabi agreed with him.As for the mursal narration from Mujahid, I have not found it anywhere else. But the connected, sustained (musnad) chain is sufficient to establish its soundness.