In al-Kabīr (5756), and al-Ḥākim 1/198 and 2/113, and al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā 1/410 and 3/360, and in al-Daʿawāt al-Kabīr (52), and al-Mizzī in his biography of Ruzaīq ibn Saʿīd in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 9/184, via the route of Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī Maryam, with this chain of transmission. Al-Ṭabarānī also transmitted it in al-Kabīr (5847), and in al-Duʿāʾ (489), and Abū al-Shaykh in Ṭabaqāt al-Muḥaddithīn bi-Aṣbahān 4/142 via the route of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Sulaymān, and Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī in al-Kunā 2/24 via the route of Dabbāb ibn Muḥammad Abī al-ʿAbbās al-Madīnī, both of them from Abū Ḥāzim Salama ibn Dīnār, from Sahl ibn Saʿd. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd is weak in ḥadīth, and Dabbāb ibn Muḥammad was mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʿdīl 3/454 with the dotted dhāl, and he did not record against him either disparagement or commendation.

Mālik also transmitted it from Abū Ḥāzim Salama ibn Dīnār, and there is disagreement concerning him [i.e., concerning the transmission].

Yaḥyā al-Laythī transmitted it in Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik 1/70, as did Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (185), and Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā according to Ibn Abī Shayba 10/224, and ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his Muṣannaf (1910), and Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways according to al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (661), and Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr according to al-Bayhaqī 1/411 — all of them: Yaḥyā al-Laythī, Abū Muṣʿab, Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Ibn Abī Uways, and Ibn Bukayr, from Mālik ibn Anas, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, as a mauqūf [statement] attributed to him, from his own words. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said in al-Tamhīd 21/138: Thus it is mauqūf upon Sahl ibn Saʿd in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ according to the group of transmitters, and something like this is not said on the basis of personal opinion. Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Muḥammad ibn Mukhallad, and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar transmitted it from Mālik as marfūʿ [raised to the Prophet].

We say: As for the transmission of Ayyūb ibn Suwayd, Ibn Ḥibbān transmitted it (1764), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (5774), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Tamhīd 21/138 and 139, and in al-Istidhkār (4092), and Shams al-Dīn al-Maqdisī in Faḍl al-Jihād wa al-Mujāhidīn (14). Ayyūb ibn Suwayd is weak.

As for the transmission of Muḥammad ibn Mukhallad — and he is al-Ruʿaynī — Abū Nuʿaym transmitted it in al-Ḥilya 6/343, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Tamhīd 21/139. Muḥammad ibn Mukhallad al-Ruʿaynī is weak.

As for the transmission of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar — and he is Abū al-Mundhir al-Wāsiṭī — Ibn Ḥibbān transmitted it (1720) via the route of Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī from him. Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar is trustworthy. =