What is the authenticity of the hadith, “No young person honors an elder for his age…”?

Question:
Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, and Yazid ibn Bayyan al-Uqayli informed us, and Abu al-Rihal al-Ansari narrated to me, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . This is a strange hadith that we do not know except from the hadith of this Shaykh, Yazid ibn Bayyan, and Abu al-Rihal al-Ansari is the last in the chain. In *al-Jami' al-Sahih*, it says: “And Abu al-Rijal.” This is the end of his statement.

Answer:
A: What did he say about the two Shaykhs, Yazid and Abu al-Rihal, or Abu al-Rijal?
The student: In *Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi*, it says: “Yazid ibn Bayyan al-Uqayli, with a dammah, Abu Khalid al-Basri, weak, from the ninth generation.” And in *Tahdhib al-Tahdhib*, it says: “Yazid ibn Bayyan al-Uqayli, Abu Khalid al-Basri, the teacher, the blind, the mu'adhdhin. He narrated from Abu al-Rihal al-Ansari, from Anas, the hadith: ‘No young person honors an elder for his age…’ the hadith. Abu al-Rihal al-Ansari—al-Rihal with a fathah on the ra and a shaddah on the hamzah—al-Basri, his name is Muhammad ibn Khalid, or it is said: Khalid ibn Muhammad. Know that Abu al-Rihal—al-Rihal with a fathah on the ra and a shaddah on the hamzah—is the correct one in this chain.”
As for al-Tirmidhi’s statement at the end of this chapter: “And Abu al-Rijal al-Ansari is the last,” it is with a kasrah on the ra and a light jim. So memorize this. And in the Ahmadi manuscript, in this chain, it says: Abu al-Rijal with a kasrah on the ra and a light jim. It says in its margin: “The statement ‘Abu al-Rijal with a jim,’ and at the end of the chapter with a ha. This is what I found in the Dehli books. And in a correct manuscript transmitted from the Arabs, it is the opposite, and both have a mark of correctness on them.”
I said: What is in the correct manuscript transmitted from the Arabs, namely that Abu al-Rihal with a hamzah in this chain, and Abu al-Rijal with a jim at the end of the chapter, is the correct one; for what you have just learned from the wording in *Tahdhib al-Tahdhib* that Yazid ibn Bayyan al-Uqayli narrated the hadith of the chapter from Abu al-Rihal; and because the Hafiz marked Abu al-Rihal—al-Rihal with a fathah on the ra and a shaddah on the hamzah—with the letter ta, and marked Abu al-Rijal—with a kasrah on the ra and a light jim—with the letters “K, M, S, Q”; and because the Hafiz said in the biography of Abu al-Rihal with a hamzah: “He narrated from Anas and others, and from him narrated Yazid ibn Bayyan al-Uqayli and others.” These three aspects indicate collectively that in this chain is Abu al-Rihal with a hamzah, not Abu al-Rijal with a jim. And Abu al-Rihal—al-Rihal with a fathah on the ra and a shaddah on the hamzah—al-Ansari al-Basri, his name is Muhammad ibn Khalid, or it is said: Khalid ibn Muhammad, weak, from the fifth generation. As for Abu al-Rijal, he said…
A: The point is that there are two weak narrators in it: Yazid and Abu al-Rihal, both of whom are weak; for this reason, al-Tirmidhi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: “Strange.” But its corroborating narrations are known from other proofs, so the honoring of the elder by the young has known corroborating narrations.