Abū Mūsā mentioned him as preceded, but I have not come across it.
Ibn al-Muḥibb, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Al-Ṣifāt (1/241b):
Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Shāfiʿī was asked about this hadith, and he said: "Many of the hadith masters (ḥuffāẓ) said: This hadith is not authentic." End quote.
I say: However, the statement of the hadith master Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī regarding the hadith is sounder and stronger, as he mentioned the hadith of Qatāda b. al-Nuʿmān, may God be pleased with him, and mentioned its routes of transmission, those among the hadith masters who narrated it, and mentioned its corroborating reports. Then he said: "The narrators of this hadith through the route of Qatāda and Shaddād are generally from the narrators of the Sahih (Authentic)." See his statement in the matn.
[Qatāda b. al-Nuʿmān, may God be pleased with him: A Companion of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, and the maternal brother of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, may God be pleased with him. He died in Medina in the year 23 AH, and ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, may God be pleased with him, prayed over him.
ʿUbayd b. Ḥunayn al-Madīnī, the freed slave of the family of Zayd b. al-Khaṭṭāb: A reliable Successor (Tabi'i) who narrated few hadiths. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim narrated from him. He died in Medina in the year 105 AH at the age of 95, and whoever said 75 AH erred. Al-Mizzī said in Al-Kamāl: "He was ninety-five years old, and that is an error." (Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 19/119).
Ibn Ḥajar said in Al-Tahdhīb, following up: "Rather, it is correct, for it is established in what Ibn Saʿd mentioned from al-Wāqidī, and likewise in the Thiqāt of Ibn Ḥibbān. What supports it is that al-Wāqidī narrated from him that he said: 'I said to Zayd b. Thābit—during the murder of ʿUthmān—: Recite Al-Aʿrāf to me. He said: You recite it to me. He said: So I recited it to him, and he did not correct a single alif or wāw from me.'" End quote.
The murder of ʿUthmān was in the year 35 AH. If it were as al-Mizzī mentioned, his age at that time would have been five years, and it is highly unlikely that someone like him would have memorized Sūrat al-Aʿrāf and be qualified to recite it to Zayd b. Thābit!!
I say (al-Sammārī): What supports Ibn Ḥajar's view is that ʿUbayd b. Ḥunayn was among the captives of ʿAyn al-Tamr whom Khālid b. al-Walīd, may God be pleased with him, sent to Medina during the caliphate of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, may God be pleased with him. Thus, he would have caught thirteen years of the life of Qatāda, may God be pleased with him, thereby establishing
