Jesus son of Mary. Were it not for the position I am in as ruler, I would have come to him to carry his sandals. (1)

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(1) Its narrators are trustworthy, but it is defective (muʿall), for this hadith was narrated by Ḥudayj ibn Muʿāwiyah, from Abū Isḥāq — namely ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sabīʿī — from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd — thus making it part of the musnad of Ibn Masʿūd. It was likewise transmitted by Aḥmad in his Musnad (4450). Al-Dhahabī said in Tārīkh al-Islām, when mentioning the story of the migration to Abyssinia, after citing the narration of Ḥudayj ibn Muʿāwiyah: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā said: Isrāʾīl informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Burdah, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded us to set out with Jaʿfar to Abyssinia — and he continued like the hadith of Ḥudayj. It appears to me that Isrāʾīl erred in it, and one hadith was confused with another for him; otherwise, where was Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī at that time? Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Iṣābah 4/212, in the biography of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī: And it is said that he rather returned to the land of his people and did not migrate to Abyssinia — meaning after his conversion to Islam — and this is the view of the majority, for Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, Ibn Isḥāq, and al-Wāqidī did not mention him among those who migrated to Abyssinia. Abū Burdah: he is the son of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, and Isrāʾīl: he is the son of Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, and ʿAbbād ibn Mūsā: he is al-Khuttalī, resident of Baghdad.

It was also transmitted in extended form by Ibn Abī Shaybah 14/346–348, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd (550), al-Ḥākim 2/309–310, Abū Nuʿaym in Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah (196) and in al-Ḥilyah 1/114–115, and al-Bayhaqī 4/50, via two chains from Isrāʾīl, with this isnād. Al-Ḥākim declared it authentic, and al-Dhahabī remained silent about it in Talkhīṣ al-Mustadrak.

Al-Bukhārī (3136) and Muslim (2502) transmitted via Burayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Burdah, and al-Bazzār in his Musnad (1326) via ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā, from Isrāʾīl ibn Yūnus, from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī — both of them (Burayd and Abū Isḥāq) — from Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, from his father, who said: The news of the Prophet's, peace and blessings be upon him, departure reached us while we were in Yemen, so we set out migrating to him… We boarded a ship, and our ship cast us to the Negus in Abyssinia, and we found Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib and his companions with him. Jaʿfar said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent us here and commanded us to stay, so stay with us. So we stayed with him until we all arrived together… Then he mentioned the story of their return to Medina after the conquest of Khaybar.

This is the wording of al-Bukhārī. In this authentic narration there is an indication of the defect in the author's narration from several angles: =