Abd al-Aʿlā, Ibn al-Muthannā, and Ibn Bashshār reported from Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah and Jubayr ibn Muḥammad ibn Jubayr, from his father, from his grandfather. The ḥadīth with the chain of Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd is the correct one, and a group agreed with him on it, among them Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī in his narration. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār was alone in narrating it from Yaʿqūb, and Ibn Isḥāq is not cited as an authority for his ḥadīth; more than one of the imams criticized him, and a group accused him of lying.

Among those who declared him weak from the contemporaries is Shaykh Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, may Allah have mercy on him, in his "Takhrij Aḥādīth al-Sunnah" 1/252.

Al-Bayhaqī also narrated it in "al-Asmāʾ wa al-Ṣifāt," pp. 417–418, via the route of Abū Dāwūd, with this chain. Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in "al-Kabīr" (1547), and al-Mizzī in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" 4/505–506, via the route of ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, and al-Dārimī in "al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah," p. 24, and Ibn Khuzaymah in "al-Tawḥīd," pp. 103–104, from Muḥammad ibn Bashshār, both from Wahb ibn Jarīr, with this chain.

Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim narrated it in "al-Sunnah" (576), al-Bayhaqī in "al-Asmāʾ wa al-Ṣifāt," p. 417, and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (92), via the route of Abū al-Azhar, and al-Ṭabarānī (1547), and al-Mizzī 4/505–506, via the route of Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, all three from Wahb ibn Jarīr, with it.

Al-Ājurrī narrated it in "al-Sharīʿah," p. 293, via the route of Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, with it.

(1) Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim narrated it in "al-Sunnah" (575) from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī and Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, with this chain.

(2) Likewise, al-Mizzī said in "Tahdhīb al-Kamāl" 4/506: "It was narrated from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād and others, and we agreed with him on it with elevation, except that he said: from Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah and Jubayr ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from his grandfather, and the correct version is: from Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah, from Jubayr ibn Muḥammad, as we have presented it in this narration." And Allah knows best.