907 — ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj informed us, saying: ʿUqbah ibn Khālid narrated to me, saying: Shuʿbah and Ibn Abī ʿArūbah narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Anas, who said: I prayed behind the Messenger of God ﷺ, and behind Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān, may God be pleased with them, and I did not hear any of them recite aloud “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful.”(1)

908 — Ismāʿīl ibn Masʿūd informed us, saying: Khālid narrated to us, saying: ʿUthmān ibn Ghayyāth narrated to us, saying: Abū Naʿāmah al-Ḥanafī informed me, saying: Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, whenever he heard one of us recite “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful,” would say: I prayed behind the Messenger of God ﷺ, and behind Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, may God be pleased with them both, and I did not hear any of them recite “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful.”(2)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Ibn Abī ʿArūbah: he is Saʿīd. It appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (981). It was also transmitted by Aḥmad (12810) and (12845), Muslim (399): (50) and (51), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1799) via multiple paths from Shuʿbah, with this chain; Ibn Ḥibbān paired Shaybān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Naḥwī with Shuʿbah. It was also transmitted by Ibn Ḥibbān (1803) via the path of Sufyān, from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, with it. And it was transmitted by Ibn Ḥibbān (1802) via the path of Abū Qilābah, from Anas. See also the preceding ḥadīth before it, and the two preceding ḥadīths under numbers (902) and (903).

(2) Its narrators are trustworthy except for Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, who is unknown; no one is recorded as having narrated from him other than Abū Naʿāmah al-Ḥanafī, who is Qays ibn ʿAbāyah. Al-Tirmidhī deemed his ḥadīth good, and al-Zaylaʿī followed him on that in *Naṣb al-Rāyah* 1/333, where he quoted al-Nawawī as saying that Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, and al-Khaṭīb deemed him weak and said: its chain revolves around Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, who is unknown. End quote. Khālid is Ibn al-Ḥārith. The ḥadīth appears in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under number (982). It was also transmitted by Aḥmad (20545) from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿUthmān ibn Ghayyāth, with this chain. And it was transmitted by Aḥmad (16787) and (20559), al-Tirmidhī (244), and Ibn Mājah (815) via two paths, from Saʿīd ibn Iyās al-Jurayrī, from Qays ibn ʿAbāyah Abī Naʿāmah al-Ḥanafī, with it, and in it there is an addition mentioning ʿUthmān, may God be pleased with him, and the name of Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal is stated explicitly in the transmission of Aḥmad (16787) as Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh.