Technical note / Defect ('illah): In manuscripts (M) and (S) this name has been corrupted into "Abu al-'Ala'", whereas the correct name is the one entered in manuscript (B).

Note / Clarification: The word "bin" had dropped out of manuscripts (M) and (S), and we have entered it with the help of manuscript (B).

Grading: Its chain is weak.
Technical note / Defect ('illah): Hushaym (Ibn Bashir) was inconsistent ("idtirab") in it: sometimes he narrated it as connected (mawsul) with mention of "Ibn al-'Ala' al-Hadrami" (whose identity is unknown), and sometimes he dropped that intermediary and narrated it as "mursal" directly from al-'Ala' bin al-Hadrami. Imam al-Daraqutni pointed out that Hushaym is alone in narrating it this way from Mansur, as in Ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi's "Atraf al-Ghara'ib" (4/ 254).

Important point: Hushaym's second narration, the "mursal" one, is the "mahfuz" (preserved) one, because it agrees with the narrations of Shu'bah and Abu 'Awanah, among the students of Mansur bin Zadhan, as will come.

Reference / Source: Imam Abu Dawud narrated it (5135) from Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Rahim, from Mu'alla bin Mansur, with this same chain.

Reference / Source: Imam Ahmad (31/ 18986), and via him Abu Dawud (5135), narrated it from Hushaym. Imam Ahmad said after it: "Hushaym narrated it to us twice: once from Ibn al-'Ala' (connected), and once without connecting it (mursal)."

Note / Clarification: This narration will come later at hadith number (7910) via Hushaym, like his narration here.

Reference / Source: Abu Nu'aym narrated it in "Ma'rifat al-Sahabah" (5510) via al-Qasim bin 'Isa, from Hushaym, from Mansur bin Zadhan, from Ibn Sirin, that al-'Ala' bin al-Hadrami, and he mentioned it as "mursal".

Corroborating chains and supporting reports: As for the narration of Imam Shu'bah from Mansur bin Zadhan, it was transmitted by Ibn Abi Shaybah (8/ 660), Abu al-Qasim al-Baghawi in "al-Ja'diyyat" (1714) and al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (18/ 162).

Corroborating chains and supporting reports: As for the narration of Abu 'Awanah al-Waddah al-Yashkuri from him, it was transmitted by Ibn al-A'rabi in his "Mu'jam" (2140) and Abu Nu'aym in "al-Ma'rifah" (5509).

Reference / Source: Likewise Khulayf bin 'Uqbah (in Ibn Qani's "Mu'jam al-Sahabah" 2/ 301) and Hisham bin Hassan (in al-Bayhaqi 10/ 130) narrated it, both from Ibn Sirin, that al-'Ala', and he mentioned it as "mursal".