Ahmad 7639

Its isnad is sahih. Malik related it in Muwatta, p. 908-909, from Suhayl, with this chain. Bukhari also related it in Adab al-Mufrad, p. 61, and Muslim in his Sahih, 2:280, both of them through the route of Malik. Tirmidhi related it, 3:152-153, and Muslim, both of them through the route of Abdul-Aziz Darawardi, from Suhayl. Abu Dawud related it, no. 4916, through the route of Abu Awana, from Suhayl. Abu Dawud said after relating it, the Prophet ﷺ shunned some of his wives for forty days, and Ibn Umar shunned a son of his until he died. Abu Dawud said, if the shunning is for the sake of Allah, then there is nothing wrong with this, and indeed Umar bin Abdul-Aziz covered his face from a man. Muslim also related it, through the route of Jareer, from Suhayl.As for the narration from the unnamed narrator that Maamar related in his statement, "And someone other than Suhayl said, 'And they are presented...'" and so on, this unnamed narrator is Muslim bin Abu Maryam. Malik related it, p. 909, from Muslim bin Abu Maryam, from Abu Salih Samman, who is the father of Suhayl, from Abu Hurairah, that he said, "The deeds of people are presented twice every week, on Monday and Thursday..." and he mentioned something similar, in this way as a stopped report. Ibn Abdul-Barr mentioned it in Muntaqa, no. 535, then said, "This is how Yahya bin Yahya related this hadith, as a stopped report attributed to Abu Hurairah, and the generality of the narrators of the Muwatta followed him in this, and the majority of them are in agreement on that. Ibn Wahb related it from Malik, as a raised report attributed to the Prophet ﷺ."Then Ibn Abdul-Barr mentioned a hadith after it, as a stopped report in the Muwatta, then said, "This hadith and the one before it cannot be arrived at by reasoning, rather it is something transmitted, and the correct view in it is the view of whoever raised it as a marfu report. Malik said, 'Muslim was a righteous man, he used to be apprehensive about raising hadiths to the level of marfu.'" Ibn Abdul-Barr means that the stopped narration, even though it is stopped in wording, is raised in ruling, and it is as he said.The narration of Ibn Wahb, which Ibn Abdul-Barr referred to, was also related by Muslim, 2:280, through the route of Ibn Wahb, from Malik, with this chain, as a raised report. Muslim also related it from Ibn Abu Umar, from Sufyan bin Uyayna, from Muslim bin Abu Maryam, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurairah, and he said regarding it, "He raised it as marfu on one occasion." So Muslim bin Abu Maryam would sometimes raise it as marfu, and at other times relate it as a stopped report, and it is sahih in either case.