962 - Muhammad ibn Rāfiʿ informed us, saying: Ibn Abī Fudayk narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Dhi’b informed us, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Ibn Qays — who is Muhammad — from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, prostrated in {When the heaven is split asunder} (1).

963 - Muhammad ibn Mansūr informed us, saying: Sufyān narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām
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(1) A sound ḥadīth, but this chain is weak due to the unknown status of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAyyāsh, for no one is recorded as having narrated from him except Ibn Abī Dhi’b — who is Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān — and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy except Ibn Abī Fudayk — who is Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl — for he is ṣadūq (truthful). Abū Salamah: he is Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (1036).

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr also transmitted it in al-Tamhīd 19/123–124 via the author’s chain, and said: The narration of Muhammad ibn Qays of this ḥadīth is more sound in their view than the narration of Ibn ʿUyaynah, and Allah knows best. End quote. The narration of Ibn ʿUyaynah is from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, from Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām, from Abū Hurayrah, and it will follow in the next ḥadīth.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī corroborated Ibn Abī Fudayk, as al-Bāghandī transmitted it via his route in Musnad ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (69) — and via his route al-Mizzī in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 18/182–183 — from Ibn Abī Dhi’b, with this chain. Al-Mizzī said: Abū Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm narrated it from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayrah, and that is the preserved version. End of his statement. That is the narration of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah mentioned earlier, and it will follow after it.

Ibn Abī Fudayk and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥanafī were contradicted:
For Aḥmad transmitted it (9859) from Ḥajjāj ibn Muhammad and Abū al-Naḍr, and al-Bāghandī in Musnad ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (70) via ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghazwān, and al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār 1/358 via Asad ibn Mūsā — all four of them from Ibn Abī Dhi’b, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAyyāsh, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, with it, without mentioning Muhammad ibn Qays in the chain between ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAyyāsh and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. And Allah knows best.