Azami 14776

Tirmidhi narrated it in Ilal al-Kabir (874/2), and this is his wording, and Ibn Khuzayma (2555), and Hakim (445/1) through the route of Ruwaym bin Yazid Lakhmi, and Ibn Khuzayma (2555) again, and Hakim (1/245) through the route of Qabisa bin Uqba, both of them from Layth bin Saad, from Aqeel, from Zuhri, from Anas, who mentioned it. Its chain is sahih. Hakim said, "Sahih according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs."Abu Dawud also narrated it (2571) through another route, from Abu Jafar Razi, from Rabi bin Anas, from Anas, in abridged form, with his saying, "Travel by night, for the earth folds up at night."Abu Jafar Razi Tamimi, freedman of theirs, is well known by his kunya, and there is disagreement about him. Ibn Main said, "Trustworthy." Ibn Saad said, "He was trustworthy." Abu Hatim said, "Trustworthy." Ibn Adi said, "He has sound hadiths." Ahmad, Abu Zura, and Nasai criticized him. The conclusion regarding him is that there is no harm in him for corroborating narrations, and this is one of them.But Qutayba bin Saeed narrated it, as found in Ilal of Ibn Abu Hatim (2256), and Abdullah bin Salih, the scribe of Layth, narrated it, as found in Sharh Mushkil by Tahawi (114), both of them from Aqeel, from Zuhri, as a mursal report. Muslim bin Hajjaj said, "Abdul-Malik bin Shuayb bin Layth showed me his grandfather's book, and I found in Layth's book what Qutayba had narrated." End of quote.Bukhari, as reported from him by Tirmidhi in Ilal al-Kabir, and Daraqutni in Ilal (12/192), preferred the mursal version. I say, the science of hadith criticism favors the mursal, but this does not rule out the possibility that Zuhri himself narrated it in two forms, connected and mursal. He was corroborated in connecting it by Rabi bin Anas Bakri, or Hanafi, and there is no harm in him for corroborating narrations. The chain to him is hasan, and it strengthens the first chain. The basic principle here favors the connected version, because, as is said, such a matter is not stated on the basis of personal opinion, rather the narrator related it once as mursal and another time as connected.Along similar lines is what was narrated from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When you travel through fertile land, let your mounts graze as befits their age, and do not skip the stopping places. When you travel through barren land, press on quickly, and travel by night, for the earth folds up at night. If the ghouls try to bewilder you, call out the adhan. Beware of praying on the roadway and camping upon it, for it is the lair of snakes and beasts of prey, and beware of relieving yourselves there, for those are the accursed spots."Ahmad narrated it (11277, 15091), and Abu Dawud (2570), through routes from Hisham bin Hassan, from Hasan, from Jabir bin Abdullah, who mentioned it. The wording given is Ahmad's, and Abu Dawud did not record his own wording.Hasan did not hear from Jabir bin Abdullah, as stated by Ibn Main, Ibn Madini, Abu Zura, and others.As for what Ibn Majah narrated (329) through Muhammad bin Yahya, who said, Amr bin Abu Salama narrated to us, from Zuhayr, who said, Salim said, I heard Hasan say, Jabir bin Abdullah narrated to us, and he mentioned part of it, it appears that this is an error. This Salim is Khayyat, and he used to make mistakes, particularly in the wording of transmission formulas, as Abu Hatim Razi and Ibn Hibban explained. The one who narrated from him, Zuhayr bin Muhammad Tamimi, had the people of Syria narrate munkar reports from him, to the point that Ahmad said, "It is as though the Zuhayr from whom the Syrians narrate is a different man." This hadith was narrated from him by Amr bin Abu Salama, who is a Damascene, a Syrian.