4746 - Hafs ibn 'Umar al-Namari narrated to us, Shu'bah narrated to us, from 'Amr ibn Murrah, from Abu Hamzah, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said: We were with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and we stopped at a waystation. He said: "You are not even one part out of a hundred thousand parts of those who will come to me at the Basin." He said: I asked: How many were you that day? He said: Seven hundred or eight hundred. (1)

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= This indicates that in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar there occurred an omission, the full form of which would be: as between my station and between Jabba and Adhruh, and what fell out was: "my station and between."

Al-Fayruzabadi, author of "Al-Qamus al-Muhit," said under the entry "j-r-b": Al-Jarba is a village adjacent to Adhruh, and whoever said there are three days between them erred; rather, the error comes from the hadith transmitters dropping an addition mentioned by al-Daraqutni, namely: "What is between the two sides of my Basin is like what is between Medina and Jabba and Adhruh."

We say: Adhruh today is in southern Jordan, between al-Shawbak and Ma'an.

Forty Companions have narrated the hadiths of the Basin; Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned them all in his "Commentary on al-Mundhiri's Abridgment of Abu Dawud" 7/135, and he said: Many of them, and most of them, are in the Sahih.

(1) Its chain is weak. Abu Hamzah: he is Talhah ibn Yazid, the freed slave of Qurazah; no one narrated from him other than 'Amr ibn Murrah, and his being declared trustworthy by those whose word carries weight has not been established. The statement of al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in his "Tahdhib" and "Taqrib" that al-Nasa'i declared him trustworthy is most likely an error on his part with no precedent for it. We have referred back to al-Nasa'i's words immediately following the hadith that al-Hafiz transmitted and in which he cited the declaration of trustworthiness, and we did not find it there. As for al-Hafiz al-Mizzi, he cited al-Nasa'i's words without the declaration of trustworthiness. As for al-Bukhari's narration from him in his "Sahih" (3787) and (3788), it is in the Virtues of the Ansar, and it contains what indicates that al-Bukhari did not use him as a proof, for in that narration 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla follows him, and at the end of that hadith: "'Amr said: I mentioned it to Ibn Abi Layla, and he said: Zayd—that is, Ibn Arqam—had claimed that."

It was also transmitted by al-Tayalisi (677), Ahmad in his "Musnad" (19291), (19309), and (19321), 'Abd ibn Humayd (266), Baqiyy ibn Makhlad in "The Narrations of the Companions on the Basin and the Kawthar" (17), Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi in "Al-Ja'diyyat" (87), al-Tabarani in =