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Its isnad is sahih. Muhammad bin Ismail bin Muslim bin Abu Fudayk, his reliability was already established at 5585, and we add here that Bukhari also gave him a biography in al-Saghir, p. 223, as did Ibn Saad in al-Tabaqat 5:324, and Ibn Abu Hatim 2/2/188-189.Dahhak bin Uthman bin Abdullah bin Khalid bin Hizam, his reliability was already established at 5585, and we mentioned there that Bukhari said in al-Kabir 2/2/335 that he was a descendant of Hakeem bin Hizam. We add here that this is an oversight on Bukhari's part, for the genealogists have not disagreed that he was a descendant of Khalid bin Hizam. Ibn Saad gave a biography in al-Tabaqat 5:312 of his son Uthman bin Dahhak bin Uthman bin Abdullah bin Khalid bin Hizam bin Khuwaylid bin Asad bin Abdul-Uzza, and of his grandson Dahhak bin Uthman bin Dahhak bin Uthman, and traced the rest of the lineage. Musab mentioned in Nasab Quraysh, p. 231, Hizam bin Khuwaylid and his sons Hakeem and Khalid and others, then mentioned on p. 234 Khalid bin Hizam, and said, "Among the descendants of Khalid bin Hizam is Dahhak bin Uthman, from whom hadiths were narrated," then mentioned his grandson Dahhak bin Uthman bin Dahhak bin Uthman. Ibn Hazm did something similar in Jamharat al-Ansab, p. 112, mentioning Khalid bin Hizam, then his son Abdullah, then Uthman bin Abdullah... then he said, "Among his descendants," meaning the descendants of Uthman bin Abdullah bin Khalid, "is Uthman bin Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Dahhak bin Uthman bin Abdullah bin Khalid bin Hizam," five in succession, all of them people of learning in hadith and narration. This is the certain truth regarding the lineage.As for Ibn Abu Hatim, he gave this Dahhak a biography at 2/1/460, and followed Bukhari as is his habit, then mentioned the correct view as though it were merely another opinion, saying, "A descendant of Hakeem bin Hizam, and it is said that he is the son of Uthman bin Abdullah bin Khalid bin Hizam, the brother of Hakeem bin Hizam bin Khuwaylid bin Asad." So he was unable to depart from Bukhari's statement, and contented himself with relating the other view.The hadith is in Jami al-Masanid wal-Sunan 7:186, taken from this very place, and Nasai narrated it 1:154, from Harun bin Abdullah, from Abu Qudayd, the teacher of Ahmad here, with this isnad. It is also in al-Muntaqa 928, attributed to Ahmad and Nasai. Al-Hafiz mentioned it in Bulugh Maram and said, "Nasai narrated it with a sahih isnad." As for "so-and-so," the unnamed person in this hadith, Muhammad bin Ismail, the Amir of Sanaa, said in Subul al-Salam 1:241, "In al-Baghawi's Sharh al-Sunnah it is said that by 'so-and-so' is meant a governor who was over Madinah, said to be named Amr bin Salama, and he is not Umar bin Abdul-Aziz as has been claimed, because Umar bin Abdul-Aziz's governorship came after the death of Abu Hurairah, and the hadith explicitly states that Abu Hurairah prayed behind this 'so-and-so.'"