Aslam

Praise be to Allah.

This hadeeth was

narrated by al-Tabarani in al-Kabeer, 10/215.

Al-Haythami said:

It was narrated by

al-Tabarani in al-Kabeer, and its isnad (chain of narrators) includes Khalid

ibn Yazeed al-‘Umari, who was accused of fabricating hadeeth.

Majma’ al-Zawaid,

4/71.

It was also

narrated – via a different isnad – by Abu Na’eem in al-Hilyah (5/106) and by

al-Bayhaqi in Shu’ab al-Eeman, 1/221.

Its isnad includes

‘Atiyah al-‘Awfi, who is da’eef (weak), and the comments of the scholars

concerning him have been quoted above (p.78); and it includes Muhammad ibn

Marwan al-Saddi, who is matrook al-hadeeth (his hadeeth is not to be

accepted).

Yahya ibn Ma’een

said: he is not thiqah (trustworthy), and on one occasion he said: he is

nothing. Ibraheem said: he is kadhdhab (a liar). Al-Sa’adi said, he is

dhahib (i.e., his hadeeth is not accepted). Al-Nasai, Abu Hatim al-Razi and

al-Azdi said: he is matrook al hadeeth (his hadeeth is not to be accepted).

Al-Bukhari said: his hadeeth should not be written down. And on one occasion

he said: they did not say anything concerning him. Ibn Hibban said: his

hadeeth is not to be written down, and it is haram (impermissible) to use

his hadeeth as evidence.

See Meezan

al-I’tidaal, 6/328; al-Du’afa wa’l-Matrookeen, 3/98

It was also

narrated by Hannad al-Sirri in al-Zuhd, 1/304; and by al-Bayhaqi in Shu’ab

al-Eeman, 1/221, with an isnad which is mawqoof and stops at ‘Abd-Allah ibn

Mas’ood (may Allah be pleased with him).