Azami 14663

Ibn Majah (4224) and Tabarani in al-Kabir (12/170) both narrated it through the route of Muslim bin Ibrahim, who said, Abu Hilal narrated to us, who said, Uqbah bin Abu Thabit narrated to us, from Abu Jawza, from Ibn Abbas, who said, then he mentioned it. Its chain is hasan because of Abu Hilal, who is Muhammad bin Muslim Rasibi, for his hadith is hasan.As for what is reported from Abu Hurairah, who said that a man said, "O Messenger of Allah, a man does a deed and keeps it secret, but when it becomes known he is pleased by that." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "He has two rewards, the reward of secrecy and the reward of openness." The correct view is that it is mursal. It was narrated by Tirmidhi (2384), Ibn Majah (4226), and Ibn Hibban (375), all of them through the route of Abu Dawud, that is, Tayalisi, who said, Abu Sinan Shaybani Saeed bin Sinan narrated to us, from Habib bin Abu Thabit, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurairah, then he mentioned it.This is how Saeed bin Sinan connected it, but Amash contradicted him and narrated it as mursal, as Tirmidhi said, "This is a hasan gharib hadith. Amash and others narrated it from Habib bin Abu Thabit, from Abu Salih, from the Prophet ﷺ, as mursal, and the companions of Amash did not mention Abu Hurairah in it."I say, the mursal version is the correct one, as Tirmidhi mentioned, because Amash is among the reliable and precise memorizers, and Thawri followed him in narrating it as mursal. As for Saeed bin Sinan, who connected it, he is not their equal in memory and precision. Daraqutni mentioned the disagreement over Habib bin Abu Thabit, and gave preference to the mursal version over the connected one. See Ilal Daraqutni (1499).