4887 — Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, Ḥammād narrated to us, from Thābit, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAjlān, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Is any one of you unable to be like Abū Ḍamḍam?" They said: "And who is Abū Ḍamḍam?" He said: "A man among those who came before you," with its meaning, he said: "My honor is for whoever insults me."(1)

Abū Dāwūd said: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim narrated it, saying: from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAmmī, from Thābit, who said: Anas narrated to us from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,(2) with its meaning.

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= It was also narrated with an elevated chain (marfūʿan) by Ibn al-Sunnī in "ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah" (65) via the path of al-Muhallab ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, from Shuʿayb ibn Bayān, from ʿImrān al-Qaṭṭān, from Qatādah, from Anas. And al-Muhallab ibn al-ʿAlāʾ is unknown; we have not found any biography for him. And Shuʿayb and ʿImrān: there is weakness in both of them.
And see what follows it.

(1) Its chain is weak, and it is mursal (discontinuous). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAjlān: unknown in status.
And the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.
It was also narrated by al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" 4/93, and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Mūḍiḥ" 1/27 via the path of Rawḥ ibn ʿUbādah, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, with this chain.
And Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl was contradicted by Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾishah according to al-Bayhaqī in "al-Shuʿab" (8083), for he narrated it via this Ibn ʿĀʾishah, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Thābit, from Anas, with an elevated chain (marfūʿan), and its chain is weak. Al-Bayhaqī said: Thus he said "from Anas." And the correct version is the narration of those who narrated it from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Thābit, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAjlān, from the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—as mursal.
And see what precedes it.

(2) It was narrated with an elevated chain (marfūʿan) by al-ʿUqaylī 4/93 via the path of Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Naḍr, and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (1770), and al-Bayhaqī in "al-Shuʿab" (8082) via the path of al-ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad al-Dūrī, and al-Ḍiyāʾ (1771) via the path of Faḍl ibn al-Aʿraj, and (1772) via the path of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī—all four of them from Abū al-Naḍr Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAmmī, from Thābit, from Anas, from the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Ḍiyāʾ said following his narration: al-Dāraquṭnī said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated it from Thābit, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAjlān, as mursal from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and that is the correct version.
And al-Haythamī mentioned in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" 3/114 supporting witnesses (shawāhid) for it, none of whose chains are sound. So consult them therein.