3925 — ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, Yūnus ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah narrated to us, from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, took the hand of a leper and placed it with him in ——————————————————————————————

= And it was also recorded by al-Bukhārī in *al-Adab al-Mufrad* (918), and al-Ṭabarī in the *Musnad of ʿAlī* from *Tahdhīb al-Āthār* (p. 25), and al-Bayhaqī 8/140, via the chain of ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, from him.

On this topic, there is also a report from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb recorded by al-Bayhaqī in *Shuʿab al-Īmān* (1362), via the chain of Yūnus ibn Yazīd, from al-Zuhrī, from al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Qārī, from ʿUmar. Al-Bayhaqī said: This ḥadīth with this chain is an error.

We say: That is because two ḥadīths have been transmitted with this chain, and this second one of them came attached to the first, while the chain belongs only to the first, as a group narrated it from Yūnus and did not mention this ḥadīth of ours.

We say: It was narrated by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his *Muṣannaf* (19526), and via his chain al-Bayhaqī 8/140, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Nawfal, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād ibn al-Hād, as a *mursal* report, and its narrators are trustworthy.

And contradicting Maʿmar, Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhḍar narrated it — as recorded by al-Bazzār (3051 — *Kashf al-Astār*) and al-Ṭabarī in *Tahdhīb al-Āthār* in the *Musnad of ʿAlī* (p. 26) — from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from his father. Al-Bazzār said: In my view, Ṣāliḥ erred in it; al-Zuhrī only narrates it from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād, as a *mursal* report. We say: Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhḍar is weak in ḥadīth.

And there is a report from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd recorded by al-Bayhaqī in *Shuʿab al-Īmān* (1363), and its chain is weak.

And there is a report from Sahl ibn Ḥārithah recorded by al-Bukhārī in *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr* 4/100, and Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in *al-Āḥād wa al-Mathānī* (2160), and al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* (5639), and it is *mursal* as al-Bukhārī said. Ibn Ḥibbān said in his biography in *al-Thiqāt*: He narrates *marāsīl*.

On this topic, there is also a report from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī recorded by Mālik in his *Muwaṭṭaʾ* 2/972 as *mursal*, and its narrators are trustworthy.