Grading: Its chain is da'if (weak) because of the weakness of Ayyub bin Suwayd.
Variation in the chain: Abd Allah bin Wahb went against him and narrated it from Yunus bin Yazid al-Ayli with this same chain from Abd Allah bin 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) as mawquf (as his own statement).
Reference / Source: As al-Fakihi narrated it in "Akhbar Makkah" (962) by way of Harun bin Musa bin Tarif from Ibn Wahb from Yunus.
Technical note / Defect ('illah): However, we could not find a biography of this Harun bin Musa.
Details of the narration: Shu'bah also narrated it from Musafi' (Ibn Shaybah al-Hajabi), from Ibn 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him), as mawquf.
Reference / Source: As Abu Hatim mentioned in his son's book "al-'Ilal" 318/2 (899).
Important point: For this reason Abu Hatim preferred the mawquf narration, and Imam al-Tirmidhi's wording also indicates a preference for the mawquf; after narrating it as marfu' (878), he said: "This is narrated from Abd Allah bin 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) as mawquf."

Reference / Source: Al-Bayhaqi narrated it in "al-Sunan al-Kubra" 75/5 and "Shu'ab al-Iman" (3741) by way of Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim with this same chain.

Details of the narration: Likewise, Ibn Khuzaymah (2731) narrated it as marfu' from Abd al-'Aziz bin Ahmad bin Suwayd, and Abu Tahir al-Mukhallis in "al-Mukhallisiyyat" (2048) and Ibn Abi al-Fawaris al-Baghdadi in the ninth part of "al-Fawa'id al-Muntaqah" (125) by way of Mawhab bin Yazid bin Khalid; both of them narrate from Ayyub bin Suwayd.
Important point: Ibn Khuzaymah says that, to his knowledge, no one other than Ayyub bin Suwayd narrated it as marfu' from the hadith of al-Zuhri, provided that he memorised it correctly.
Corroborating chains and supporting reports: However, narrators other than al-Zuhri narrated it from Musafi' bin Shaybah as marfu', such as Raja' Abu Yahya.
Details of the narration: We say: the route of Raja' Abu Yahya will come shortly in "al-Mustadrak", and its takhrij will be given there.

Details of the narration: Muthanna bin al-Sabbah narrated it from Musafi' al-Hajabi, from Ibn 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him), as mawquf.
Reference / Source: Al-Azraqi narrated it by his route in "Akhbar Makkah" 328/1.
Criticism of a narrator: This Muthanna bin al-Sabbah is weak and suffered from mental confusion (ikhtilat) at the end of his life.

Reference / Source: Al-Azraqi narrated it at (1/ 327) by way of Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Abi Yahya, who narrated from Layth bin Sa'd, from Mughirah bin Khalid al-Makhzumi, from Ibn 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him), as mawquf.
Criticism of a narrator: This narrator, Ibrahim bin Muhammad, is "matruk" (severely weak, one whose narration is abandoned).

Corroborating chains and supporting reports: On this subject there is also a narration from Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), which is in Musnad Ahmad 5/ (2795),
Grading: but its chain is da'if (weak).

Corroborating chains and supporting reports: Another narration is reported from Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), which is the hadith that comes after this one,
Important point: and the correct view is that it too is likewise mawquf (the Companion's own statement).

Note / Clarification: Imam al-Dhahabi objected to this in "al-Talkhis", saying that Imam Ahmad declared him weak.
Criticism of a narrator: We say: Imam Abu Dawud, al-Saji and Ibn Yunus also declared him weak; Ibn Ma'in said that he is worthless and steals hadiths; Imam al-Bukhari said that the scholars have criticised him; Imam al-Nasa'i called him not thiqah, and in another place matruk al-hadith; Abu Hatim called him "layyin al-hadith" (soft, weak in hadith); and although Ibn Hibban mentioned him in "al-Thiqat", he also stated explicitly that his memory was very poor and that he made mistakes.