Ahmad 7478

Its isnad is sahih. As for Ziyad al-Makhzumi, Husayni did not give him an entry in Ikmal, nor did al-Hafiz in Tajil, so it seems both of them concluded that he belongs among the men of Tahdhib, and this is the correct view which I consider more likely, as will be shown.Dhahabi gave him an entry in Mizan (1:360), an entry reading as follows, "Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, narrated from Uthman, and Ismail bin Abu Khalid narrated from him. Yahya bin Main said, 'He is nothing.'" Al-Hafiz followed him in Lisan Mizan (2:499) and added, "Bukhari said, 'He is counted among the Kufans,' and mentioned Abu Hurairah among his teachers." Ibn Hibban likewise mentioned him in Thiqat. This is a different man from Ziyad, freedman of Abdullah bin Ayyash al-Makhzumi, who was a trustworthy Madinan and is among the men of Muslim.Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar followed in this Bukhari in Kabir, Ibn Abu Hatim in Jarh wal-Tadil, and Ibn Hibban in Thiqat, for they distinguished between the two narrators. Bukhari gave an entry (1/2/323-324) for Ziyad bin Abu Ziyad, whose father's name was Maysara, freedman of Abdullah bin Ayyash bin Abu Rabia, the Qurashi Madinan. He gave a lengthy entry in which he mentions that Malik met him and described him as devout, that Malik favored hadith of the sunnah from him, and mentioned a narration of his from Anas. Then he gave an entry (p. 327) for Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, from Abu Hurairah, from whom Ibn Abu Khalid narrated, counted among the Kufans. Isa said, from Abu Hamza, from Ibn Abu Khalid, from Ziyad al-Madani, from Abu Hurairah.Ibn Abu Hatim did likewise, giving an entry (2/1/545) for Ziyad bin Maysara, who is Ziyad bin Abu Ziyad... Then he gave an entry (p. 549) for Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, who narrated from Uthman and Abu Hurairah, and from whom Ismail bin Abu Khalid narrated. Then he related with his own chain from Ibn Main, who said, "Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, is nothing." Ibn Hibban did likewise in Thiqat, mentioning the two entries briefly (pp. 191, 192).Shafii related in Umm (2:175) a report from Ibn Umar with his chain as follows, "A trustworthy person informed me, from Hammad bin Salama, from Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, who was trustworthy..." and he then gave the report from Ibn Umar. This narrator, according to Shafii, was given an entry by al-Hafiz in Tajil (142), where he marked him with Shafii's symbol and said, "Ziyad, freedman of Banu Makhzum, that a group of people caught a gazelle, and Ibn Umar said to them, 'You owe its compensation.' Hammad bin Salama narrated from him, and Shafii deemed him trustworthy."I say, the speaker being Ibn Hajar, "I think he is Ziyad bin Abu Ziyad, whose father's name was Maysara, freedman of Abdullah bin Ayyash bin Abu Rabia al-Makhzumi, and he is trustworthy. He has an entry in Tahdhib." Husayni preceded the author of Mizan in treating him as a separate entry, for he gave him an independent entry. Thus said al-Hafiz.Now, firstly, I did not find an entry for him in Ikmal by Husayni, as I indicated before. Perhaps this, along with much else like it, is evidence that the printed copy of Ikmal published in India is incomplete, just as it is full of errors and unedited.Secondly, Dhahabi did not give a separate entry to this narrator from Ibn Umar, from whom Hammad bin Salama narrated, according to Shafii. Rather, he gave a separate entry to the narrator from Uthman, as we quoted his words earlier. Al-Hafiz himself did not give a separate entry for the narrator from Abu Hurairah in this hadith, which supports, as we said, that he considered him to be Ziyad bin Abu Ziyad, freedman of Abdullah bin Ayyash.So his distinguishing between the two in Lisan Mizan was either an oversight or a shift of attention, in following Bukhari and those who followed him. Whatever the case, the narrator of this hadith is trustworthy, since Bukhari gave him an entry without criticizing him, since Ibn Hibban mentioned him in Thiqat, and since Shafii deemed him trustworthy. There is nothing to indicate that the one who narrated from Ibn Umar, according to Shafii, is different from the one who narrated from Abu Hurairah here.There will also come from him, from Abu Hurairah, hadiths numbered 7473, 9634, 10129, 10127, 10169, and 10555. As for the text of this hadith, it is sahih, having already appeared by another route with two chains, 7184 and 7266.