Azami 2003

Ibn Majah (824) narrated it, saying, Ishaq bin Mansur told us, saying, Ishaq bin Sulayman informed us, saying, Amr bin Abu Qays informed us, from Abu Farwa, from Abu Ahwas, from Abdullah bin Masud, and he related the hadith. Ishaq said, "This is how Amr narrated it to us, from Abdullah. I have no doubt about it." End of quote.Busiri said in Zawaid bin Majah, "This chain is sahih, its narrators are reliable, and it has corroborating narrations from the hadith of Abu Hurairah, narrated by Nasai in his Sunan Sughra." End of quote.I say, the correct view is that it is hasan, for Amr bin Abu Qays is disputed. Ibn Main deemed him reliable, while Abu Dawud said, "There is error in his hadith." For this reason, Hafiz placed him at the rank of "truthful but has misconceptions," and someone of that standing has their hadith graded hasan when used as corroboration. Abu Farwa is Muslim bin Salm Nahdi, also called Juhani because he settled among them, well known by his kunya, and he is one of the narrators found in the two Sahihs, and his hadith is hasan.As for Busiri's statement that it has a corroborating narration from the hadith of Abu Hurairah narrated by Nasai in his Sunan Sughra, there is a shortfall in the attribution, for the hadith was actually narrated by the two Shaykhs, as mentioned earlier, through the route of Sufyan, from Saad bin Ibrahim, from Abdul-Rahman Araj, from Abu Hurairah. And through this same route it was also narrated by Nasai in his Sunan Sughra (955), as Busiri said.On this subject there is also a narration from Saad bin Abu Waqqas found in Ibn Majah, but it contains Harith bin Nabhan, who is daif. There is also a narration from Ali bin Abu Talib found in Tabarani's Awsat and Saghir, but it likewise contains Harith, who is daif, as Haythami said in Majma (2/169).