Yahya bin Jadah and I went in to see a man from the Ansar who was among the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He said, "A freedwoman of Banu Abdul-Muttalib was mentioned in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and it was said that she stood in prayer through the night and fasted during the day."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "But as for me, I sleep and I pray, I fast and I break my fast. Whoever follows my example belongs to me, and whoever turns away from my way does not belong to me. Every deed has a period of zeal followed by a period of slackening. Whoever's slackening leads him toward an innovation has gone astray, and whoever's slackening leads him toward the Sunnah has been rightly guided."
دخلت أنا ويحيى بن جعدة على رجل من الأنصار من أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ قال: ذكروا عند رسول الله ﷺ مولاة لبني عبد المطلب، فقال: إنها تقوم الليل وتصوم النهار. قال: فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لكني أنا أنام وأصلي، وأصوم وأفطر، فمن اقتدى بي فهو مني، ومن رغب عن سنتي فليس مني، إن لكل عمل شرة ثم فترة، فمن كانت فترته إلى بدعة فقد ضل، ومن كانت فترته إلى سنة فقد اهتدى.
Imam Ahmad narrated it (23474) from Yahya bin Saeed, who said, Jareer narrated to us, from Mansur, from Mujahid, who said, and mentioned it. Haythami said in Majma (3/193), "Ahmad narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of sahih."But Tabarani narrated it in Kabir (2)(320) and Tahawi in his Mushkil (1238) via a route from Yahya, from Sufyan, from Mansur, from Mujahid, from Jadah bin Hubayra, who said, "It was mentioned to the Prophet ﷺ," and he related the hadith in the same way.So he made the hadith part of the musnad of Jadah bin Hubayra, who is the Qurashi, the Makhzumi, whose mother was Umm Hani bint Abu Talib. There is disagreement over whether he was a companion. Bukhari, Abu Hatim, and Ibn Hibban said, "He is one of the successors." Mizzi and Baghawi affirmed that he was a companion, but they denied that he narrated directly from him, saying, "He saw him but did not narrate from him." On this basis, whatever he narrated from the Prophet ﷺ would be a report missing the companion link in the chain. This report strengthens what Mujahid narrated from a man of the Ansar, since this is a different person. So it is as if Mujahid had two teachers, one the Ansari and the other the Qurashi.The hadith has another isnad narrated by Bazzar in Kashf Astar (724) via a route from Jareer, from Muslim, from Mujahid, from Ibn Abbas, who said, "There was a freedwoman of the Prophet ﷺ who used to fast during the day and pray at night," and he related something similar.Bazzar said, "We do not know it except from Ibn Abbas, and he has no route for it except this one with this wording. Muslim narrated it alone."I say, Muslim is the one-eyed. This is how Tahawi identified him in his Mushkil (1241) after narrating it via a route from Muhammad bin Khazim, from Muslim the one-eyed, with the same wording.This one-eyed man is Muslim bin Kaysan Sabi, and he is daif by consensus of the scholars. Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah narrated from him.As for Haythami's statement in Majma (2/258), "Bazzar narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of sahih," this rests on his assumption that this Muslim is Ibn Imran al-Batin, who is among the narrators accepted by all the compilers.And "shirrah," with a kasrah, means intensity and vigor.