The one who comes after him is like the one who offers a ram as a sacrifice, then the one who comes after him is like the one who offers a chicken, then the one who comes after him is like the one who offers an egg. (1)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic. ʿUthmān: he is Ibn Saʿīd ibn Kathīr, and Shuʿayb: he is Ibn Abī Ḥamzah, and al-Zuhrī: he is Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn Shihāb, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Agharr: his name is Salmān. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (938).

The author also transmitted it in al-Kubrā, as found in Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf (13465), via the path of Bishr ibn Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, from his father Shuʿayb, with this chain of transmission.

There is disagreement concerning it regarding al-Zuhrī:

Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah transmitted it as in this narration, and Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd transmitted another portion of it, as in Musnad Aḥmad (7582) and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (3211), both from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Agharr.

Mālik transmitted it from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah alone, according to the author, as in Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf (15251) (with another portion of it).

Maʿmar transmitted it from al-Zuhrī, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Agharr alone, as will come under number (1385).

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah transmitted it from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, as will come under number (1386), all three of them from Abū Hurayrah, with it.

Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī transmitted it from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Salamah, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Agharr, from Abū Hurayrah; he combined the three, as al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in al-ʿIlal 4/48, and he said: It is the preserved version, because Yaḥyā combined the three in his narration from al-Zuhrī. End quote.

All of these narrations concern the virtue of Friday. Some of them transmitted the narration in full, as will come under number (1386), and some of them divided it.

Aḥmad transmitted something similar to it in (7687), (9896), and (10474), and the author in al-Sunan al-Kubrā, as in Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf (12186), (14019), (14033), and (14082), via other paths, from Abū Hurayrah, with it.

It will also come via the path of Ibn ʿAjlān under number (1387), and Mālik under number (1388), both from Sumayy, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, with it, specifically concerning Friday.