Ahmad 7327

This has two chains of transmission, one sahih and connected, the other mursal and daif. Sufyan bin Uyayna narrated it from Abu Zinad, from Araj, from Abu Hurairah. This is a connected chain. He also narrated it from Amr, that is Ibn Dinar, from Yahya bin Jadah. This is a mursal chain. Yahya bin Jadah bin Hubayra bin Abu Wahb Makhzumi Qurashi was a reliable follower (tabii thiqa), whom Bukhari mentioned in al-Kabir 4/2/265. His narration from the Prophet is mursal.A similar hadith was narrated by Malik in Muwatta 994, from Abu Zinad, from Araj, with the wording, "The fire of the children of Adam that they kindle is one part out of seventy parts of the fire of Hell." They said, "O Messenger of Allah, that would surely be enough." He said, "It exceeds it by sixty-nine parts."Bukhari narrated it, 6:238, through Malik's route, adding at the end, "all of them equal to its heat." Muslim narrated it, 2:352, through the route of Mughira bin Abdul-Rahman from Abu Zinad, similarly to Bukhari's version. He then narrated it again in similar wording, from the hadith of Hammam bin Munabbih from Abu Hurairah, and likewise Tirmidhi narrated it, 3:345-346, from the hadith of Hammam bin Munabbih, saying, "This is a hasan sahih hadith."Munziri mentioned in al-Targheeb wal-Tarheeb, 4:226-227, the narrations of Malik and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), then said, "Ahmad, Ibn Hibban in his Sahih, and Bayhaqi narrated it, adding to it, 'and it was struck upon the sea twice, and were it not for that, Allah would not have made in it any benefit for anyone.'"A similar meaning has also been reported from the hadith of Anas bin Malik, in Ibn Majah, 4318, and in al-Mustadrak by Hakim, 4:593.