It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (3688), al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr" (1/1/305 and 4/1/222), Ibn Mājah (4020), Ibn Ḥibbān (1384), al-Bayhaqī (8/295 and 10/231), Aḥmad (5/342), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (1/167/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir (16/115/2), all from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ from Ḥātim with it. I said: Its narrators are trustworthy except for Mālik ibn Abī Maryam. Al-Dhahabī said: "He is unknown." Ibn Ḥibbān declared him reliable according to his criteria! This is the flaw in this isnād. As for al-Mundhirī, he pointed out its flaw in "Mukhtaṣar" (5/271) by saying: "In its isnād is Ḥātim ibn Ḥurayth al-Ṭāʾī al-Ḥimṣī. Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī was asked about him and said: 'A shaykh.' Ibn Maʿīn said: 'I do not know him.'" I said: Others recognized him. ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī said: "Trustworthy." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," and Ibn ʿAdī said: "Due to the rarity of his ḥadīth, Ibn Maʿīn did not know him, and I hope there is no harm in him." I said: So, pointing out its flaw due to his shaykh Mālik ibn Abī Maryam—as we did—is more appropriate, because no one declared him reliable except Ibn Ḥibbān, as we mentioned. Moreover, there is an addition in the ḥadīth from Ibn Mājah, al-Bayhaqī, and Ibn ʿAsākir with the wording: "Musical instruments and singers will play over their heads, Allāh will cause the earth to swallow them, and He will transform them into apes and swine." The ḥadīth is authentic in its entirety, and its origin has supporting evidence previously mentioned