Ahmad 7080

Its chain of transmission is sahih. Abu Bakr is Ibn Abu Shayba. Abu Ishaq is Subayi Hamdani. Saaib bin Malik is the father of Ata bin Saaib, and he is a well known trustworthy tabii, whose verification and biography were given earlier at 596 and 6483, where we noted the disagreement over the name of Saaib's father, whether Malik or Yazid, and it was also said to be Zayd, which is the reading Ibn Hibban settled on in his biography of him in al-Thiqat, 210.Bukhari gave his biography in al-Kabir, 2/2/155, and pointed to this hadith, saying, "As for Abdul-Samad, he said, from Shuba, from Abu Ishaq, from Saaib bin Malik, from Abdullah bin Umar, and Abu Bakr bin Ayyash followed him in this." Abdul-Samad said, "Shuba said, He is Abu Ata." Abu Abdul-Samad said, "Ata told me, my father Abdullah bin Amr informed him," narrating it concerning the eclipse.This is a reference to this very hadith, except that the mention in Shuba's narration of "from Abdullah bin Umar" is, in my view, an error on the part of the copyists, and the correct reading is Abdullah bin Amr. This is indicated by the statement "Abu Bakr bin Ayyash followed him," since Abu Bakr bin Ayyash's narration from Abu Ishaq is the very narration found here, and it is the hadith of Abdullah bin Amr bin As. This is further supported by the fact that Shuba also narrated it from Ata bin Saaib, from his father, from Abdullah bin Amr, as previously mentioned at 7673, and as we detailed in the supplementary note number 2729. The hadith has already been given in full at 6483, from the narration of Ibn Fudayl, from Ata, from his father, from Abdullah bin Amr, where we also pointed to the rest of its narrations in the Musnad, among which is this narration.