Azami 4311

Ibn Khuzayma (2212) and Ibn Hibban (3438) both narrated it from the hadith of Hakam bin Nafi, from Shuayb bin Abu Hamza, from Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman Ibn Abu Husayn, from Isa bin Talha, who said, "I heard Amr bin Mura Juhani," and he related it. Bazzar narrated it - Kashf Astar (25) - through another route from Hakam bin Nafi. Haythami deemed its chain hasan, or graded it sahih, in Majma al-Zawaid (46/1). Ahmad narrated it (24009/81) through another route from Isa bin Talha, adding to it, "so long as he does not act undutifully in it, nor towards his parents." Its chain contains Ibn Lahia, about whom there is well known discussion, and he alone transmitted this addition.On this subject there is also what was narrated from Abu Saeed Khudri, who said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Whoever fasts Ramadan, knows its limits, and guards against what he should guard against in it, will have his previous sins expiated.'" Imam Ahmad (11524), Abu Yaala (1058), and Ibn Hibban (3433) all narrated it from the hadith of Abdullah bin Mubarak. It is in his Zuhd (98), from Yahya bin Ayub, from Abdullah bin Qurayt, that Ata bin Yasar told him that he heard Abu Saeed Khudri, and he related it.Only Yahya bin Ayub narrated from Abdullah bin Qurayt, and Ibn Abu Hatim mentioned him in Jarh wa Tadeel (5/140) without recording any criticism or endorsement of him, so he is counted among the unknown narrators. That is why Husayni said in Ikmal, "Unknown." As for Ibn Hibban, he mentioned him in Thiqat and included his hadith in his Sahih, and that is in keeping with his methodology.On this subject there is also what was narrated from Salman, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ delivered a sermon to us on the last day of Shaban and said,'O people, a great month has come upon you, a blessed month, a month containing a night better than a thousand months. Allah has made fasting it obligatory and standing in prayer during its nights voluntary. Whoever draws near to Allah in it with a good deed will be like one who performed an obligatory deed in any other month, and whoever performs an obligatory deed in it will be like one who performed seventy obligatory deeds in any other month. It is the month of patience, and the reward of patience is Paradise. It is the month of compassion, and a month in which the believer's provision increases. Whoever gives a fasting person food to break his fast will have his sins forgiven, his neck freed from the Fire, and he will have a reward equal to that of the fasting person, without anything being diminished from the fasting person's own reward.'"They said, "Not all of us can find something with which to feed a fasting person to break his fast."He said, "Allah grants this reward to whoever gives a fasting person to break his fast with even a date, a sip of water, or a sip of milk. It is a month whose beginning is mercy, whose middle is forgiveness, and whose end is freedom from the Fire. Whoever eases the burden on his servant in it, Allah will forgive him and free him from the Fire. Increase in it four things, two of which will please your Lord, and two of which you cannot do without. As for the two which will please your Lord, they are testifying that there is no god but Allah, and seeking His forgiveness. As for the two which you cannot do without, they are asking Allah for Paradise and seeking refuge with Him from the Fire. And whoever gives a fasting person enough to eat until he is full, Allah will give him a drink from my pool that will leave him never thirsty again until he enters Paradise."Ibn Khuzayma narrated it in his Sahih (1887) and said, "If the report is sound," as did Bayhaqi in Fadail Awqat (37) and in Shuab al-Iman (3336), and Asbahani in Targhib wa Tarhib (1753), all of them through various routes from Yusuf bin Ziyad, who said, Hammam bin Yahya told us, from Ali bin Zayd, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Salman Farsi, and he related it.Yusuf bin Ziyad is Basri, Abu Abdullah. Bukhari and Abu Hatim said, "His hadith is rejected." Daraqutni said, "He is well known for fabrications." Also in this chain is Ali bin Zayd, who is Ibn Jadan, considered daif by the imams of hadith.As for what Harith narrated in his Musnad - Bughyat Bahith (321) - from Abdullah bin Bakr, who said, "One of our companions, a man called Iyas, told me" - he traced the hadith up to Saeed bin Musayab, from Salman Farsi, who said (and he related the hadith). Iyas, who is Ibn Abdul-Ghaffar, is not a corroborating narrator for Ali bin Zayd bin Jadan. Rather, what the narrator meant in saying that he traced the hadith to Saeed bin Musayab is that it came through the route of Ali bin Zayd bin Jadan, as is made explicit in Bayhaqi's Shuab al-Iman (3336), where he narrated it through the route of Abdullah bin Bakr Sahmi, who said, Iyas bin Abdul-Ghaffar told us, from Ali bin Zayd bin Jadan, with a similar chain.Iyas bin Abdul-Ghaffar, who is Iyas bin Abu Iyas, was described by Aqeeli in Duafa (35/1) as, "Unknown, and his hadith is not preserved." He then mentioned this hadith and said, "It has been narrated through more than one route, but it has no clearly established chain." End of quote.