Abu Dawud said: It was narrated by al-Mu'tamir, from his father, from Abu 'Uthman, from the Prophet, peace be upon him: he did not mention Salman.

3814 - Nasr ibn 'Ali and 'Ali ibn 'Abdullah narrated to us, they said: Zakariyya ibn Yahya ibn 'Umarah narrated to us, from Abu al-'Awwam al-Jazzar, from Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi, from Salman, that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was asked, and he said the like of it. He said: "The most numerous of Allah's soldiers." 'Ali said: His name is Fa'id, meaning Abu al-'Awwam.

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= al-Taymi, from Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi — whose name is 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Mull — as a mursal report, and they are of a high rank in trustworthiness. For this reason, Ibn Ma'in, in the narration of al-Duri from him, 4/268, preferred the mursal version, and Abu Hatim likewise preferred it, as his son narrated from him in al-'Ilal, 2/8. Al-Bayhaqi also inclined to this view, 9/257.

It was also narrated by al-Bazzar (2509), al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (6129), al-Bayhaqi 9/257, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his Tarikh 14/72, and Ibn 'Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq 21/374, via the route of Muhammad ibn al-Zibriqan, with this chain.

Opposing Muhammad ibn al-Zibriqan were Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah al-Ansari, according to al-Bayhaqi 9/257, Mu'tamir ibn Sulayman, according to 'Abd al-Razzaq (8757), and Yazid ibn Harun, according to Ibn Abi Shaybah 8/329 — they all narrated it from Sulayman al-Taymi, from Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi, as a mursal report. This is a sound mursal report; its narrators are trustworthy. Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi is among the senior Followers and is a mukhadram.

Likewise, Shu'bah ibn al-Hajjaj narrated it from those who heard Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi, from Abu 'Uthman, as a mursal report. Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi narrated it from him in his Musnad (653).

See what follows it.

(1) Abu al-'Awwam al-Jazzar — whose name is Fa'id ibn Kaysan — even though he is fair in hadith, and Muhammad ibn al-Zibriqan followed him, being of similar rank, those who are more trustworthy than both of them contradicted them, as has been explained previously in the preceding hadith, and they narrated it from Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi as a mursal report, which is the correct version.

It was also narrated by Ibn Majah (3219), Ibn Qani' in Mu'jam al-Sahabah 1/285, al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (6149), al-Bayhaqi 9/257, and al-Mizzi in his biography of Abu al-'Awwam in Tahdhib al-Kamal, via the route of Abu al-'Awwam, with it.

See what precedes it.