it was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr", and its narrators are trustworthy. Then he said in the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd (2/167): "It was narrated by Aḥmad and al-Bazzār... and their narrators are the narrators of (al-Ṣaḥīḥ)."

- (he used to deliver the sermon with a staff in his hand). It was recorded by Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/377): ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Awaysī and Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd informed us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿah informed us from Abū al-Aswad from ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr from his father: that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)... and he mentioned it. I say: This isnād is good; all its narrators are trustworthy, despite the known weakness in Ibn Lahīʿah's memory. However, Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd is among the trustworthy narrators whose ḥadīth scholars have authenticated when narrated from Ibn Lahīʿah, because he used to narrate from his book and not from memory, as has been verified by al-Dhahabī in several places, so there is no need to repeat it. The ḥadīth was also recorded by al-Bazzār in "Musnad" (1/306-307), Abū al-Shaykh in "Akhlaq al-Nabī (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)" (128), and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (4/243) through other chains from Ibn Lahīʿah with it. Al-Bazzār said: "We do not know it from Ibn al-Zubayr except through this route." I say: The wording of al-Baghawī is: "He used to deliver the sermon with a staff." And with this wording, al-Haythamī mentioned it in "al-Majmaʿ" (2/187), saying: "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr", and al-Bazzār, and in it is Ibn Lahīʿah, and there is discussion about him."