(My life is better for you, and my death is better for you) What is the reason for your weakening of this hadith?

The questioner : The hadith of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) to the end, or as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said. This hadith was narrated by al-Bazzar. Al-Zarqani (may Allah have mercy on him) said its chain is good, and it has been weakened... So what is the reason for the weakening of this hadith?

The Shaykh : The reason for the weakness is that it came in *Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd* as *mursal*, and a *mursal* report is classified by the scholars of hadith as a weak hadith. As for al-Bazzar's chain, which was deemed good by the one who deemed it good, it contains a man named 'Abd al-Majid ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Abi Rawad. This 'Abd al-Majid is weaker than his father, 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Abi Rawad, who is actually one of the narrators in Muslim, but he was criticized regarding his memory, and in the end, his hadith is relied upon at the level of *hasan*. As for his son, 'Abd al-Majid, he is weak due to his memory. Therefore, the claim that the chain is good does not hold, especially since he was contradicted in its connection; the trustworthy narrator narrated it as *mursal* and did not mention the Companion in it. This is what I referred to in my commentary on the book *The Virtue of Sending Blessings upon the Prophet* (peace and blessings be upon him).