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Those who relied on narrating this hadith from Qatādah are Hammām ibn Yaḥyā al-ʿAwdhī and Abū ʿAwānah, as will come later. Contrary to them, Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh al-Dastuwāʾī differed, narrating it from Qatādah, from Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, as in the forthcoming chain. The mursal version was deemed preponderant by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal in al-ʿIlal wa-Maʿrifat al-Rijāl 1/239 and 543, al-Dārimī in his Sunan (2458), Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī as in al-ʿIlal of his son 1/313, Abū Dāwūd himself as will come immediately after the hadith (2585), al-Bazzār in his Musnad as quoted from him by Ibn al-Mulaqqin in al-Badr al-Munīr 1/636, and also quoted from him by Ibn al-Qaṭṭān al-Fāsī in Bayān al-Wahm wa-al-Īhām 2/147, al-Nasāʾī as quoted from him by al-Mundhirī in Mukhtaṣar Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3/403, and likewise quoted from him by Ibn al-Mulaqqin in al-Badr al-Munīr 1/635, al-Dāraquṭnī as related from him by Ibn al-Mulaqqin 1/635–636, and also quoted from him by Ibn al-Qayyim in Tahdhīb Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3/404, and al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā 4/143.

Al-Tirmidhī said after producing the hadith (1786): This is a ḥasan gharīb hadith. Ibn al-Qayyim said in his Tahdhīb 3/404: The correct view is that the hadith of Qatādah, from Anas, is preserved from the narration of the trustworthy, precise, and meticulous narrators Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim and Hammām, from Qatādah, from Anas. The one who narrated it from Qatādah, from Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, as mursal, is Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī. And even though Hishām is given precedence among the companions of Qatādah, Hammām and Jarīr are not inferior to him when they agree [together]. And God knows best. Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī declared it ṣaḥīḥ in his Mukhtārah (2375), and likewise the scholar Khalīl Aḥmad al-Sahāranfūrī declared it ṣaḥīḥ in Badhl al-Majhūd 12/86, and he has a most valuable discussion therein—consult it.

It was also produced by al-Tirmidhī (1786) and al-Nasāʾī (5374) via the chain of Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, and by al-Nasāʾī (5374) via the chain of Hammām ibn Yaḥyā, both from Qatādah, with it.

It is also found with al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār (1398) via the chain of Abū ʿAwānah al-Yashkurī, from Qatādah, from Anas. However, in its chain there is Hilāl ibn Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī, known as Hilāl al-Raʾy, who is weak. See the complete takhrīj there.

Corroborating the hadith of Anas is the hadith of Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, as recorded by al-Nasāʾī (5373). Ibn al-Mulaqqin declared its chain ṣaḥīḥ in al-Badr al-Munīr 1/639, and al-Ḥāfiẓ followed him in al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr 1/52, and it is as the two of them said.