I feared for my mount that it would be stolen." He said: So I began saying to myself, "Then where are the thieves of Tayyi'?"

This is a good (ḥasan) and strange (gharīb) hadith. We do not know it except from the narration of Simāk ibn Ḥarb. Shuʿbah narrated from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from ʿAbbād ibn Ḥubaysh, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, from the Prophet ﷺ, the hadith in its entirety.

3187 — Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā and Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us, they said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, he said: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from ʿAbbād ibn Ḥubaysh, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: "The Jews are those with whom Allah is angry, and the Christians are those who have gone astray." Then he mentioned the hadith in its entirety.

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(1) A good (ḥasan) hadith, and it is in its entirety in "Musnad Aḥmad" (19381). Al-Haythamī mentioned it in "Al-Majmaʿ" 5/335 and said: Aḥmad narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ except for ʿAbbād ibn Ḥubaysh, and he is trustworthy (thiqah). Thus he said concerning ʿAbbād ibn Ḥubaysh, even though none narrated from him except Simāk, and none declared him trustworthy except Ibn Ḥibbān, who authenticated this hadith of his in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (6246), (7206), and (7365).

His saying: "al-saraq" (السَّرَق) — with vowelization (taḥrīk) — means theft, and it is originally a verbal noun. One says: saraqa yasriqu saraqan. This was stated by Ibn al-Athīr.

(2) A good (ḥasan) hadith due to corroborating witnesses (li-ghayrihi). ʿAbbād ibn Ḥubaysh, even though none declared him trustworthy except the author and none narrated from him except Simāk, was followed by al-Shaʿbī and Murrī al-Qaṭarī.

Ibn Ḥibbān also recorded it (6246), and see the completion of its documentation therein.

And see what precedes it.