Azami 3473

Abu Dawud (3106) and Tirmidhi (2083) both narrated it from the hadith of Shuba, from Yazid Abu Khalid, from Minhal bin Amr, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, who mentioned it. Their wording is identical. Tirmidhi said, "Hasan gharib, we do not know it except from the hadith of Minhal bin Amr." Hakim (1/342) also narrated it through this route and said, "Sahih according to the criterion of Bukhari."I say, it is not as he claimed, for Yazid Abu Khalid, who is al-Dalani, is not among the narrators of Bukhari, nor among the narrators of Muslim, but rather the authors of the Sunan collections narrated from him. Moreover, there is disagreement about him. Ibn Main and Nasai said, "There is no harm in him." Abu Hatim said, "Truthful, reliable." Ibn Hibban said in al-Duafa, "He made many errors and had gross confusion, contradicting the reliable narrators in his narrations, to the point that when a beginner in this discipline hears them, he recognizes that they are defective or inverted. It is not permissible to cite him as evidence when he agrees with the reliable narrators, so how much less when he narrates difficult matters alone."I say, there is clear bias evident in these words of Ibn Hibban. Hakim said, "The earlier authorities testified to his truthfulness and precision." The conclusion regarding him is that his hadith is hasan, and it has been corroborated.Nasai narrated it in Amal al-Yawm wal-Layla (1045, 1046, 1047), and Tabarani in al-Dua (1115, 1116, 1118, 1119), through routes from Shuba, from Maysara, from Minhal bin Amr, with his chain, similarly. Maysara is Ibn Habib al-Nahdi, Abu Hazim al-Kufi, "truthful" as stated in al-Taqrib.The hadith has other chains as well. Among them, from Minhal bin Amr, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, narrated by Tabarani in al-Dua (1117, 1120). Among them also, from Minhal bin Amr, from Abdullah bin Harith, from Ibn Abbas, narrated by Imam Ahmad (2138, 3298) and Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (536), and Hakim (4/213). Among them also, from Minhal bin Amr, who said, Saeed bin Jubayr informed me, from Abdullah bin Harith, from Ibn Abbas. This was narrated by Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (2975), and Hakim (4/213), both through the route of Abdullah bin Wahb, who said, Amr bin Harith informed me, from Abd Rabbih bin Saeed, who said, Minhal bin Amr narrated to me, with similar wording.Hakim said, "Sahih according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs, though they did not narrate it, and no one corroborated Amr bin Harith in placing Saeed between Minhal and Ibn Abbas. Rather, Hajjaj bin Artah narrated it from Minhal, from Abdullah bin Harith, without mentioning Saeed bin Jubayr between them." End of quote.It appears that an error occurred in inserting Saeed bin Jubayr between Minhal and Abdullah bin Harith, for Bukhari narrated it in Adab al-Mufrad, as mentioned above, from Ahmad bin Isa, who said, Abdullah bin Wahb narrated to us with his chain, and he did not insert "Saeed bin Jubayr" between Minhal and Abdullah bin Harith. Likewise, Hajjaj bin Artah narrated it from Minhal. Imam Ahmad narrated it (2138) from Abu Muawiya, and (3298) from Yazid, both of them from Hajjaj bin Artah, from Minhal bin Amr, as mentioned above.In some of its routes, it is mentioned that he visited the sick person and sat by his head. Bukhari titled a chapter in Adab al-Mufrad with the words, "Where should the visitor sit."