This is a ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth.

Abū al-Jaḥḥāf’s name is Dāwūd ibn Abī ʿAwf.

It is narrated from Sufyān al-Thawrī that he said: Abū al-Jaḥḥāf narrated to us, and he was one who met with approval.

4011 — Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us, saying: Abū Dāwūd narrated to us, saying: Shuʿbah informed us, on the authority of Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, who said: I heard Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrating on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "While a man was riding a cow, it said: 'I was not created for this; I was only created for plowing.' The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'I believe in that, myself and Abū Bakr and ʿUmar.'"

Abū Salamah said: And the two of them were not among the people that day.

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And Sāwār ibn Muṣʿab — who is al-Hamdānī al-Kūfī — his ḥadīth is denounced (munkar).

Al-Ḥākim also transmitted it in 2/264 via Aḥmad ibn Kāmil ibn Khalaf al-Qāḍī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawḥ al-Madāʾinī, from Shabābah ibn Sāwār, from Abū ʿUqbah al-Ḥimṣī, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn ʿAjlān, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī. And he declared its chain authentic! We say: In it is ʿAṭāʾ ibn ʿAjlān — who is al-Baṣrī — and he is abandoned (matrūk).

It has a supporting witness that brings no joy, from the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās, as transmitted by Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah 8/160, and al-Khaṭīb in his Tārīkh 3/298. In it is Muḥammad ibn Mujīb, and he is abandoned (matrūk).

(1) In the printed edition, after this appears: "And Talīd ibn Sulaymān, whose kunyah is Abū Idrīs, and he is a Shīʿī." But it is not found in our manuscript sources.

(2) A sound ḥadīth. Al-Bukhārī transmitted it (2324), and Muslim (2388), and al-Nasāʾī =