Abu Dawud said: Sometimes Abd al-Razzaq narrated this hadith as mursal, from Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from the Prophet, peace be upon him. And sometimes he narrated it from al-Zuhri, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b ibn Malik. Abd al-Razzaq mentioned that Ma'mar would sometimes narrate the hadith to them as mursal, and they would write it down, and sometimes narrate it to them with the chain connected (musnad), and they would write it down — and all of it is sound in our view. Abd al-Razzaq said: When Ibn al-Mubarak came to Ma'mar, Ma'mar connected the chains of hadiths that he had previously left unconnected (mawquf).

4514 — Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us, Ibrahim ibn Khalid narrated to us, Rabah narrated to us, from Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah ibn Ka'b ibn Malik, from his mother Umm Mubashshir: I entered upon the Prophet, peace be upon him — and he mentioned the meaning of the hadith of Makhlad ibn Khalid.

Abu Sa'id ibn al-A'rabi said: Thus he said: "from his mother," but the correct version is: "from his father, from Umm Mubashshir."(1)

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= He heard this hadith from Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b and from his nephew Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah ibn Ka'b, for this hadith was well-known among the family of Ka'b ibn Malik, and Umm Mubashshir was the wife of Ka'b.

Ibn Hazm also cited it in al-Muhalla, 11/25, via the chain of Abu Dawud with this isnad.

See also what follows.

Note: This hadith, in both of its chains — this one and the one that follows — we have confirmed it from (B) and the margin of (H), and it appears in the transmissions of Ibn al-A'rabi and Ibn Dasah. Al-Mizzi mentioned it in al-Tuhfah (11139).

(1) Its chain is sound. What Abu Sa'id ibn al-A'rabi, the transmitter of the Sunan from Abu Dawud, corrected agrees with what appears in al-Hakim's Mustadrak, 3/219, via the transmission of al-Qati'i from Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal, from his father. Likewise, al-Hafiz cited it in Ittihaf al-Maharah, 18/311, in the musnad of Umm Mubashshir, attributing it to al-Hakim, and the editor of that volume of al-Ittihaf indicated that it likewise appears in the two manuscripts of al-Mustadrak — the manuscript of Riwaq al-Magharibah and the manuscript of Atif Efendi.