"It was narrated by Aḥmad, and in it is a man who was not named, but the rest of its narrators are trustworthy." I said: And likewise, it was extracted by al-Bayhaqī (6/155) through another chain from Hushaym with it, then he said: "And we have written it from the ḥadīth of Musaddad from Hushaym: ʿAwf informed us, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn narrated to us from Abū Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Muqri informed us... " Then he traced the chain to Musaddad with it. And Musaddad is trustworthy, one of the narrators of al-Bukhārī, but in the chain to him is someone I do not know. The ḥāfiẓ al-Zaylaʿī in "Naṣb al-Rāyah" (4/292) and likewise the ḥāfiẓ al-ʿAsqalānī in "al-Talkhīṣ" (p. 256) did not address this chain. And Allāh knows best. And the ḥadīth has a corroborating narration from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, raised with the wording: "Whoever digs a well, he has forty cubits as a watering place for his livestock." It was extracted by al-Dārimī (2/273) and Ibn Mājah (2/96) through the route of Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-Makkī from al-Ḥasan from him. And this is a weak chain with two defects: the first is the ʿanʿanah of al-Ḥasan, who was al-Baṣrī, as he was a mudallis. The other is the weakness of Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-Makkī. The ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "He was a jurist, weak in ḥadīth." And he said in "al-Talkhīṣ" (256) after attributing it to Ibn Mājah alone: "And in its chain is Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim, who is weak, and al-Ṭabarānī extracted it through the route of Ashʿath from al-Ḥasan, and in the chapter from Abū Hurayrah with Aḥmad." I said: As long as Ashʿath has followed him, then it is more appropriate to attribute the weakness of the ḥadīth to the first defect, as is not hidden. And this Ashʿath is one of four, all of whom narrate from al-Ḥasan: