They said: We were told by Ibn Abī ʿAdī, from Shuʿbah, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, that the Prophet ﷺ said: "The passing away of the entire world is less significant in the sight of Allah than the killing of a Muslim man."(1)

1453 - We were told by Muḥammad ibn Bashshār, who said: We were told by Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, who said: We were told by Shuʿbah, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, something similar, but he did not attribute it to the Prophet (i.e., he reported it as a statement of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, not as a marfūʿ hadith)(2). And this is more authentic than the narration of Ibn Abī ʿAdī.

On this topic, there are also reports from Saʿd, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Saʿīd, Abū Hurayrah, ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, and Buraydah.

The hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr was narrated in this manner by Ibn Abī ʿAdī, from Shuʿbah, ---

(1) This hadith is potentially subject to improvement (taḥsīn), but this chain is weak; ʿAṭāʾ al-ʿĀmirī, the father of Yaʿlā, is unknown (majhūl). The correct view is that it is mauqūf (a statement of a Companion), as al-Bukhārī stated, according to what the author (al-Tirmidhī) transmitted from him in his "al-ʿIlal al-Kabīr" 2/579. It was also recorded by al-Nasāʾī 7/82. It has a supporting witness (shāhid) from the hadith of Buraydah recorded by al-Nasāʾī 7/83, which also contains weakness. Another witness comes from the hadith of al-Barāʾ recorded by Ibn Mājah (2619), which is also weak. It appears in the printed edition of "al-Targhīb wa al-Tarhīb" 3/293, edited by Muṣṭafā ʿAmārah, as being narrated by Muslim, but this is an error by the copyist, for the hadith was not recorded by Muslim at all. al-Nājī said in "al-ʿAjālah": This wording is inserted without any doubt, and it must be deleted, for the hadith is not in Muslim by consensus. The author of "al-Mudāwī" said: The error is from the copyist of the manuscript, not from al-Mundhirī, for if the hadith were in Muslim, it would be inconceivable that he would say after it: "marfūʿan wa mauqūfan" (both raised to the Prophet and stopped at a Companion), since Muslim does not narrate mauqūf reports, especially given that he (al-Tirmidhī) reported that the mauqūf version was considered more preponderant.

(2) Its chain is weak like the previous one, and it was recorded by al-Nasāʾī 7/82-83.