al-Haythamī said in "al-Majmaʿ" (10/236): "It was narrated by Aḥmad, and its men are the men of the authentic collections."

"I do not know if Tubbaʿ was cursed or not? And I do not know if Dhū al-Qarnayn was a prophet or not? And I do not know if the legal punishments are expiations or not?" It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (4674) - without the third sentence - and al-Ḥākim in "al-Mustadrak" (1/36) and from him by al-Bayhaqī (8/329) and Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥanāʾī in "al-Fawāʾid" (16/1) and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in "al-Jāmiʿ" (2/50) and Ibn ʿAsākir in "al-Tārīkh" (3/251/1 and 6/57/1 and 11/302/1 and 16/66/2), all from ʿAbd al-Razzāq who reported from Maʿmar from Ibn Abī Dhīb from Saʿīd al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs, and I do not know of any defect in it," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and it is as they said. Ibn ʿAsākir said: "al-Dāraquṭnī said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq was unique in narrating it." I say: And perhaps he means from Maʿmar, otherwise Maʿmar was followed up on it from Ibn Abī Dhīb as will come, and it was criticized for being mursal, as al-Ḥanāʾī said after it: "It is strange, and it was narrated by Hishām ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣanʿānī from Ibn Abī Dhīb from al-Zuhrī from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) as mursal, and it is the more authentic." al-Bayhaqī mentioned something similar from al-Bukhārī, and I say: "Hishām is trustworthy, and Maʿmar contradicted him as mentioned earlier, and likewise ʿĀdam ibn Abī Iyyās contradicted him, narrating from Ibn Abī Dhīb from al-Maqburī with it