Azami 10752

Tirmidhi narrated it (1074) from Muhammad bin Bashshar, who said, Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi and Abu Amir Aqadi narrated to us, both saying, Hisham bin Saad narrated to us, from Saeed bin Abu Hilal, from Rabia bin Sayf, from Abdullah bin Amr, and he mentioned the hadith.Tirmidhi said, "It is hasan and rare, and the chain of this hadith is not connected. Rabia bin Sayf only narrates from Abu Abdul-Rahman Hubli, from Abdullah bin Amr, and we do not know of Rabia bin Sayf having heard directly from Abdullah bin Amr."This is how it appears in the edition of Muhammad Fuad Abdul-Baqi, but in other copies it reads only "rare," and that is the correct reading, since hasan and disconnection cannot go together.As for the hadith itself, it has other routes that strengthen it. Among them is what Imam Ahmad narrated through two paths.The first (6646) is from Siraj, who said, Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Muawiya bin Saeed, from Abu Qabil, from Abdullah bin Amr, and he mentioned it.Baqiyyah is known to conceal his sources, and here he used the ambiguous "from" formula, but he explicitly stated "narrated to me" in the second path, which Ahmad narrated (7050) from Ibrahim bin Abu Abbas, who said, Baqiyyah narrated to us, saying, Muawiya bin Saeed Tujibi narrated to me, saying, I heard Abu Qabil Misri say, I heard Abdullah bin Amr bin As, and he mentioned the hadith.Baqiyyah explicitly stated "narrated to me" in this chain, just as he explicitly stated having heard it directly throughout the rest of the chain, so the suspicion of concealment is thereby removed, and this chain is hasan. Abu Qabil Misri is Huyayy bin Hani, about whom Ahmad, Ibn Main, and Abu Zura said, "Trustworthy." Abu Hatim said, "Acceptable in hadith."The hadith has other routes as well, but what I have mentioned here is the soundest of them.