Mustadrak al-Hakim — Hadith 4206

(2) كذا جاء في النسخ الخطية، ومقتضى ما فصّله من المذكورين أن يقول: أربعة!
Technical note / Defect ('illah): This is how (the number) appears in the manuscripts, although the persons enumerated require it to say "four"!

(3) رجاله ثقات، لكن ذكر شاهد يوسف وابن ماشطة بنت فرعون فيه شاذٌّ، والصحيح ذكر عيسى وصاحب جريج وصبي آخر من بني إسرائيل كان يلتقم ثدي أمه دعا بخلاف ما دَعَتْ به أمُّه، كذلك رواه البخاري (3436) عن مسلم بن إبراهيم، وكذلك رواه وهب بن جَرير بن حازم عند أحمد 13 / (8071)، ويزيد بن هارون عند مسلم (2550) وابن حبان (6489)، كلاهما (وهب ويزيد) عن جَرير بن حازم.
Grading: Its narrators are thiqah,
Technical note / Defect ('illah): but the mention in it of "the witness of Yusuf (peace be upon him)" and "the son of the hairdresser of Pharaoh's daughter" is "shadh." The correct version mentions 'Isa (peace be upon him), the child of Jurayj's story, and another child of the Children of Israel who, while suckling at his mother's breast, prayed against what his mother had prayed for.
Reference / Source: Thus it was narrated by al-Bukhari (3436) from Muslim bin Ibrahim, and likewise by Wahb bin Jarir bin Hazim in Ahmad 13/(8071), and by Yazid bin Harun in Muslim (2550) and Ibn Hibban (6489), both of them (Wahb and Yazid) from Jarir bin Hazim.
وقد جاء من وجه آخر عن أبي هريرة بذكر الأربعة المذكورين هنا عند أبي الطاهر السِّلَفي في الثاني والعشرين من "المشيخة البغدادية" (18)، لكن إسناده ضعيف.
Corroborating chains and supporting reports: The mention of the four (children) listed here has also come through another route from Abu Hurayrah in Abu al-Tahir al-Silafi's "al-Mashyakhah al-Baghdadiyyah," part twenty-two (18),
Grading: but its chain is weak.
وقد ورد ذكر الأربعة مجموعين في حديث ابن عبّاس من قوله موقوفًا عليه عند أحمد 5/ (2821) بإسناد صحيح عنه، ورفعه بعضهم كما تقدم برقم (3877)، ولا يصح، إلّا ذكر ابن ماشطة بنت فرعون لوحده، فقد جاءت قصته مرفوعة في الحديث يذكرُ النبي ﷺ فيه أنه في الليلة التي أُسري فيها أتت عليه رائحة طيبة، قال: فقلت: يا جبريل، ما هذه الرائحة الطيبة؟ فقال: هذه رائحة ماشطة ابنة فرعون وأولادها، قال: قلت: وما شأنها؟ فذكر له جبريل قصتها مع ابنها. وقد جاء عن ابن عبّاس بسند لا بأس به: أنَّ شاهد يوسف كان ذا لحية. يعني كبيرًا، كما أخرجه الطبري في "تفسيره" 12/ 195. وفي هذا ما يؤكد ضعف رفعه عن ابن عبّاس، إذ لو ثبت لديه مرفوعًا لما اختلفت أقواله فيه، والله أعلم.
Reference / Source: The four are mentioned together in the saying of Ibn 'Abbas, mawquf on him, in Ahmad 5/(2821) with a sahih chain from him. Some narrated it as marfu' (as the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) saying), as passed under no. (3877),
Grading: but that is not authentic, except for the mention of the son of the hairdresser of Pharaoh's daughter alone, for her story has come as marfu' in the hadith in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentions that on the night of his Night Journey a pleasant fragrance came to him. He said: "I said: O Jibril, what is this pleasant fragrance?" He said: "This is the fragrance of the hairdresser of Pharaoh's daughter and her children." Then Jibril told him her story with her son.
Technical note / Defect ('illah): It is narrated from Ibn 'Abbas with an acceptable chain (la ba'sa bihi) that "the witness of Yusuf (peace be upon him) had a beard," i.e. he was a grown man (not a child), as al-Tabari recorded in his "Tafsir" 12/195. This confirms the weakness of the marfu' version from Ibn 'Abbas, for had it been established with him as marfu', his statements about it would not have differed. And Allah knows best.