al-Bayhaqī in "al-Sunan" (1/379) through the route of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah from Masʿar from Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī from Ibn Abī Awfá said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... and he mentioned it. al-Bazzār said: "We do not know anyone who narrated it from Masʿar except Sufyān, and the correct view is that it is stopped at Abū al-Dardāʾ." Ibn Shāhīn said: "Sufyān is unique in narrating it from Masʿar, no one else narrated it from him, and it is a strange, authentic, and good ḥadīth!" al-Ḥākim said: "This isnād is authentic, and Muslim and al-Bukhārī have used Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī as evidence, and if such a chain is sound; it is not harmed by the weakening of those who corrupted its isnād." Then he narrated it through the route of ʿAbd Allāh from Masʿar from Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī who said: Our companions narrated to me from Abū al-Dardāʾ that he said ... and he mentioned it in a similar stopped form. He said: "This does not invalidate the first, nor does it criticize it; for Ibn ʿUyaynah is a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ, and likewise ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak." I said: And al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar remained silent about the ḥadīth in "al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr" (1/208)! And here I have observations that I must mention: Firstly: al-Bazzār's statement: "and the correct view is that it is stopped!" I say: There is no basis for this correction; for I have seen that the basis of both the elevated and the stopped is on (Ibrāhīm al-Saksakī); if he is a ḥujjah, then the matter is as al-Ḥākim said: the stopped does not invalidate the elevated; because the isnād to him in both is authentic. So reflect!