The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was addressing a gathering of the Ansar when they said, "Messenger of Allah, these are the sons of Thalaba bin Yarbu. They killed so-and-so during the days of ignorance."The Prophet ﷺ then called out in a raised voice, "No soul is held accountable for the crime of another."
كان رسول الله ﷺ يخطب في أناس من الأنصار. فقالوا: يا رسول الله هؤلاء بنو ثعلبة بن يربوع قتلوا فلانا في الجاهلية فقال النبي ﷺ وهتف بصوته: ألا لا تجني نفس على الأخرى.
Nasai (4833) narrated it from Mahmud bin Ghaylan, who said, Bishr bin Sari narrated to us, who said, Sufyan (that is, Thawri) narrated to us from Ashath, from Aswad bin Hilal, from Thalaba bin Zahdam Yarbui, and he related it. Its chain is sahih if the companionship of Thalaba bin Zahdam is confirmed, and there is discussion about this as will follow. If his companionship is not confirmed, then he is narrating from people among Banu Thalaba who met the Prophet ﷺ, as Shuba narrated from Ashath bin Abu Shatha, who said, I heard Aswad bin Hilal narrating from a man of Banu Thalaba bin Yarbu that some people from Banu Thalaba came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he mentioned something similar.Nasai (4835) also narrated it from Mahmud bin Ghaylan, from Abu Dawud, who said, Shuba informed us.Abu Awana narrated it, and through his route Nasai and Ahmad (16613) narrated it, and Abu Ahwas narrated it with Nasai, both of them from the hadith of Ashath, from his father (that is, Sulaym Abu Shatha Muharibi), from a man of Banu Thalaba bin Yarbu, who said, I came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was speaking, and a man said, "Messenger of Allah, these are Banu Thalaba bin Yarbu who harmed so-and-so." The Messenger of Allah said, "No," meaning no soul shall be held guilty for another's crime. Both chains are sahih, and Ashath, that is Ibn Abu Shatha, is trustworthy, and he has two teachers, Aswad bin Hilal and his father Abu Shatha, except that Thalaba bin Zahdam's companionship is disputed.In Tahdhib, Ibn Hajar said, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Sakan, Abu Muhammad bin Hazm, and a group of those who wrote about the companions, too many to list, affirmed with certainty the validity of his companionship. Bukhari mentioned him in Tarikh al-Kabir and said, Thawri said, He has companionship, but this is not correct. Tirmidhi said in his history, He met the Prophet ﷺ, but most of his narrations are from the companions. Ajli said, He is a trustworthy successor. Muslim mentioned him in the first generation of the successors. This is the end of Ibn Hajar's statement.I say, if his companionship is confirmed, then that settles it, and if not, then the ambiguity of the companion's identity in the narration of Abu Awana and Abu Ahwas does not harm it, as is well known.On this subject there is also a report from Amr bin Ahwas, who said, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say during the Farewell Hajj, "No father shall be held guilty for the crime of his child, nor shall a child be held guilty for the crime of his father." Ibn Majah (2669), Tirmidhi (2159/1163), Ahmad (16064), and Ibn Abu Asim in Diyat (312) all narrated it from the hadith of Shabib bin Gharqada, from Sulayman bin Amr bin Ahwas, from his father, and he related it. Tirmidhi said, hasan sahih.I say, in it is Sulayman bin Amr, from whom no one narrated except Shabib bin Gharqada, and no one deemed him trustworthy except Ibn Hibban. Therefore Ibn Hajar said, "Acceptable," meaning when corroborated, but I did not find any corroborating narration for him. Ibn Qattan considered him unknown.This is part of the Prophet's sermons ﷺ during the Farewell Hajj, see the book of Hajj.As for what was narrated from Asim bin Luqayt, that Luqayt went out as a delegate to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ accompanied by a companion of his called Nuhayk bin Asim bin Malik bin Muntafiq, and he mentioned the hadith at length, and in it came, "No one shall hold you guilty except yourself," this is very daif.Abdullah bin Ahmad narrated it (16206), saying, Ibrahim bin Hamza bin Muhammad bin Hamza bin Musab bin Zubayr Zubayri wrote to me, "I am writing to you with this hadith, and I have reviewed it and heard it as I have written it to you, so narrate it from me on that basis." He said, Abdul-Rahman bin Mughira Hizami narrated to me, who said, Abdul-Rahman bin Ayyash Samai Ansari Qubai from Banu Amr bin Awf narrated to me, from Dalham bin Aswad bin Abdullah bin Hajib bin Amir bin Muntafiq Aqeeli, from his father, from his uncle Luqayt bin Amir. Dalham said, and my father Aswad also narrated it to me, from Asim bin Luqayt, that Luqayt went out as a delegate, and he related it.Haythami mentioned it in Majma (338/10-340) and said, Abdullah (bin Ahmad) and Tabarani narrated something similar to it, and one of Abdullah's two routes has a connected chain with trustworthy narrators, while the other chain and Tabarani's chain are mursal, from Asim bin Luqayt, that Luqayt... This is the end of the quotation.Ibn Hajar said in his Tahdhib, in the biography of Asim bin Luqayt bin Amir, Abu Qasim Tabarani narrated it at length, and it is a very rare hadith.I say, Abu Dawud (3266) narrated it in abridged form with his saying, "By the life of your God," through the route of Ibrahim bin Hamza, Abdul-Rahman bin Ayyash Samai Ansari narrated to us, from Dalham bin Aswad, with his chain.