Ahmad 902

Its isnad is hasan. Abdullah bin Ibrahim, Ibn Hibban mentioned him in Thiqat, and Abu Hatim said his hadith is acceptable. Ahmad bin Hanbal, Ibn Madini, and others narrated from him. Ahmad narrated here from him through an intermediary as well, and a hadith narrated from him directly will come later at 12688.His father, Ibrahim bin Amr bin Kaysan Yamani Sanani, is reliable. Ibn Main and Ibn Hibban both deemed him reliable.Abdullah bin Wahb bin Munabbih Sanani has an entry in Tahdhib, where neither criticism nor endorsement is mentioned about him. In Taqrib it says, "I do not know of anyone who deemed him reliable, though Abu Dawud said he is well known." Someone like this has his narration accepted.Abu Khalifa Tai Basri is likewise accepted, as stated in Taqrib.This hadith was narrated by Bukhari in Kabir 1/1/307-308, where he said, "Ibrahim bin Musa said to me, Hisham bin Yusuf narrated to us, saying, Ibrahim bin Amr informed me," and he was one of the best people in prayer though there was something questionable in his views, "from Abdullah bin Wahb bin Munabbih, from his father, from Abu Khalifa, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, 'Allah is gentle and loves gentleness, and He gives for gentleness what He does not give for harshness.'"In this isnad, Wahb bin Munabbih has been added as the one who narrated from Abu Khalifa. Perhaps he was dropped from the isnad in the Musnad, or dropped in the transmission of one of its narrators.The hadith appears in Majma al-Zawaid 8/18, where it is said, "Ahmad, Bazzar, and Abu Yaala narrated it. No one has weakened Abu Khalifa, and the rest of its narrators are reliable." Suyuti mentioned it in Jami Saghir 1743 and attributed it to Ahmad and to Bayhaqi in Shuab from the hadith of Ali, to Tabarani from the hadith of Abu Umama, and to Bazzar from the hadith of Anas. This is a shortcoming on his part, for Bukhari narrated it with the same meaning at 4/44, 8/12, 13, 57, 84, 85, 9/16 (the Sultaniyyah edition) from the hadith of Ayesha with different wordings, and Muslim likewise narrated it at 2/285.