4307 - Abdullah ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Samad narrated to us, Musa al-Hannat narrated to us — I do not know of him except that he mentioned it from Musa ibn Anas — from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him: "O Anas, verily the people will establish settlements, and among them will be a settlement called al-Basrah or al-Busayrah. If..."

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We say: This follow-up narration is not to be relied upon, because the hadith was narrated by Abu Bahr al-Bakrawi — as found with Abu Bakr al-Marwazi in "al-Jumu'ah wa Fadluha" (72) — who said: Rashid, a freed slave of the Banu Himman, narrated to us, from Sa'id Abu Hafs (who is Ibn Jamhan), from Muslim ibn Abi Bakrah, from his father, in abbreviated form. Thus the hadith returns to Sa'id ibn Jamhan, although Rashid may have erred as Ibn Hibban stated. Durust and al-Bakrawi are both weak.

It was also narrated by Nu'aym ibn Hammad in "al-Fitan" (1911) from Isma'il ibn Ulayyah, and by Nu'aym ibn Hammad (1929), and by al-Hakim 4/475 from Abd al-Razzaq from Ma'mar — both of them (Ibn Ulayyah and Ma'mar) from Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani. And it was narrated by Ibn Abi Shaybah 15/107 from Yazid ibn Harun, from Hisham ibn Hassan, and by al-Hakim 4/475 via the route of Qatadah ibn Di'amah al-Sadusi — all three of them (Ayyub, Hisham, and Qatadah) from Muhammad ibn Sirin, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakrah, from Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As, with the wording mentioned previously as his own statement.

It was also narrated by Nu'aym ibn Hammad (1918) via the route of Salamah ibn Mulayh al-Dabbi, and by Ibn Abi Shaybah 15/112 via the route of Rabi'ah ibn Jawshan, and by Nu'aym ibn Hammad (1896), and by al-Hakim 4/459-460 via the route of Uqbah ibn Aws al-Sidusi (and according to al-Hakim: Uqbah ibn Amr ibn Aws), and by al-Hakim 4/502 and 533-534 via the route of Sulayman ibn Rabi'ah al-Anazi — all four of them from Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As as his own statement. As for the wording of Rabi'ah ibn Jawshan, it has been mentioned previously, and the wordings of the remaining three are similar, stating that the people will then split into three groups distributed across the lands — not that one group perishes, one group disbelieves, and one group fights, as is found in the narration of Sa'id ibn Jamhan.

All of their chains of transmission are good when combined with one another, and thus they outweigh the narration of Ibn Jamhan without doubt. And Allah Almighty knows best.

Al-Khattabi said: "Al-Gha'it is the low-lying ground of the earth, and al-Basrah is the soft stones, and by it al-Basrah was named, and Banu Qantura' are the Turks."