its isnād is Ḥasan.
Chain: Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ → Maʿrūf al-Makkī → Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah (may Allah be pleased with him). Rijāl: (1) Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-Ruʾāsī: thiqah ḥāfiẓ, a man of worship known for his precision, though some critics noted a slight leaning attributed to him without detracting from his reliability in ḥadīth. Died 197 AH. (2) Maʿrūf al-Makkī: identified by some as Maʿrūf ibn Kharrabūdh al-Makkī; graded ṣadūq/maqbūl by the critics — accepted, particularly when corroborated, which is reflected in the “ḥasan” rather than outright “ṣaḥīḥ” grading given here. (3) Abū al-Ṭufayl: ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah al-Laythī; Companion (Ṣaḥābī); by consensus the last Companion to die, c. 100–110 AH at Makkah; saw the Prophet ﷺ as a boy. Takhrīj: the Prophet’s ﷺ practice of touching the Black Stone with a crooked staff (miḥjan) while performing ṭawāf on his mount during the Farewell Pilgrimage or ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ is corroborated in Muslim, Kitāb al-Ḥajj (1272), and Abū Dāwūd (1881), narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās. Commentary: This is understood by the fuqahāʾ as establishing the permissibility of touching or kissing the Black Stone with an intermediary object such as a staff when direct contact is impeded by crowding, a ruling still applied in contemporary Ḥajj and ʿUmrah practice.