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Muslim narrated it in the introduction (5), with a connected chain, from Abu Bakr bin Abu Shayba, who said, Ali bin Hafs told us, Shuba told us, from Khubayb bin Abdul-Rahman, from Hafs bin Asim, from Abu Hurairah, and he mentioned it. This is the second narration in Muslim. Abu Dawud (4992) likewise narrated it from Muhammad bin Hasan, who said, Ali bin Hafs told us, with his connected chain. Abu Dawud said, "No one gave it a connected chain except this shaykh," meaning Ali bin Hafs Madaini.We say, it does no harm that Ali bin Hafs Madaini narrated it alone, for he is among those whom Ali bin Madini, Abu Dawud himself, Nasai, and others declared trustworthy. Muaz Anbari and Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi differed from him, for they said, Shuba told us, from Khubayb bin Abdul-Rahman, from Hafs bin Asim, without mentioning Abu Hurairah, as Muslim also narrated it, and this is the first narration in Muslim. In the copies of Muslim, this narration reads "from Hafs bin Asim, from Abu Hurairah," but this is a mistake.Nawawi said, "The first path, Muslim narrated it through the narration of Muaz and Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi, both of them from Shuba, and Ghundar likewise narrated it from Shuba, giving it as a mursal narration. The second path is through Ali bin Hafs, from Shuba." Daraqutni said, "The correct view is that the mursal narration from Shuba is right, as Muaz, Ibn Mahdi, and Ghundar narrated it." Then he said, "Abu Dawud (4992) also narrated it in his Sunan both as mursal and as connected. He narrated it as mursal from Hafs bin Umar Numayri, from Shuba, and he narrated it connected through the narration of Ali bin Hafs. Since it is established that it was narrated both connected and mursal, the practice is to treat it as connected. This is the sahih view held by the jurists, the scholars of legal theory, and a group of the people of hadith. It does no harm that the majority narrated it as mursal, for the connection is an addition from a trustworthy narrator, and such an addition is accepted." End of quote.I say, what Nawawi stated was preceded by Hakim (1/112), who, after presenting it through the path of Ali bin Hafs, said, "Ali bin Hafs Madaini is trustworthy, and we have already noted at the beginning of the book that additions from trustworthy narrators are to be relied upon." Then he said, "A group of Shuba's companions narrated it as mursal," and he mentioned among them Adam bin Abu Iyas, Sulayman bin Harb, and Hafs bin Umar.