Azami 3165

Bukhari related it in "The Two Eids" (986) from Muhammad (bin Salam), who said, "Abu Tumayla Yahya bin Wadih told us, from Fulayh bin Sulayman, from Saeed bin Harith, from Jabir," and he mentioned it. Bukhari said, "Yunus bin Muhammad followed him, from Fulayh, and the hadith of Jabir is more sahih."Many scholars found this statement of Bukhari's problematic, and here is a summary of what Shaykh Ahmad Shakir set out in his commentary on Tirmidhi (2/425), "This wording is problematic. Ibn Hajar discussed it at length in Fath al-Bari (2/473), and concluded that something has dropped out of it, as indicated by some manuscripts of Bukhari, the mustakhraj works, and the atraf works. I have an old, sound manuscript of Sahih Bukhari, written in Shiraz in the year 834, in which the wording is correct, and it reads, 'Yunus bin Muhammad followed him, from Fulayh. And Muhammad bin Salt said, from Fulayh, from Saeed, from Abu Hurairah, and the hadith of Jabir is more sahih.' See Fath al-Bari (2/393–394). What I consider more likely is that both hadiths are sahih, and that Saeed bin Harith heard them both from Jabir and from Abu Hurairah, so he would sometimes narrate the hadith of this one and sometimes the hadith of that one. This is supported by the fact that Hakim related it in Mustadrak (1/296) via Yunus bin Muhammad, from Fulayh, from Saeed, from Abu Hurairah, and both he and Dhahabi graded it sahih according to the standard of the two sheikhs. Ibn Hajar also attributed this narration to Ibn Khuzayma and Bayhaqi, then said, 'What seems most likely to me is that the discrepancy in it comes from Fulayh, for perhaps his teacher heard it from both Jabir and Abu Hurairah, and this is reinforced by the difference in the two wordings. Bukhari held that it is from Jabir, while Abu Masud and Bayhaqi disagreed with him and held that it is from Abu Hurairah, and no clear preference has appeared to me in this matter.' This is what Ibn Hajar said, but I consider both of them sahih together." End of quote.I say, the hadith of Abu Hurairah was related by Tirmidhi (541), Imam Ahmad (8454), Ibn Khuzayma (1468), Ibn Hibban (2815), Hakim (1/296), Bayhaqi (3/308), and Ibn Majah (1301) in some manuscripts, all of them through various routes from Fulayh bin Sulayman, from Saeed bin Harith, from Abu Hurairah, who said, "When the Prophet ﷺ went out on the day of Eid by one route, he would return by another."Tirmidhi said, "The hadith of Abu Hurairah is hasan gharib. Abu Tumayla and Yunus bin Muhammad related this hadith from Fulayh bin Sulayman, from Saeed bin Harith, from Jabir bin Abdullah. Some scholars have recommended that the imam, when he goes out by one route, return by another, following this hadith, and this is the view of Shafii. The hadith of Jabir seems to be more sahih." End of quote.I say, on this subject there is also a report from Ibn Umar that the Prophet ﷺ took one route on the day of Eid, then returned by another route. It was related by Abu Dawud (1156), Ibn Majah (1299), Imam Ahmad (5879), Hakim (1/296), and Bayhaqi (3/308), all of them through the route of Abdullah bin Umar, from Nafi, from Abdullah bin Umar bin Khattab, and he mentioned it, and the wording is that of Abu Dawud.Abdullah bin Umar bin Hafs bin Asim bin Umar bin Khattab, Umari, is daif.And from Abu Rafi, it was related by Ibn Majah (1300), and it contains Mindal bin Ali and his teacher Muhammad bin Ubaydullah bin Abu Rafi, both of whom are daif. There are other reports besides these, and all of them are daif.