Authenticity of The Event
The event is considered to be weak, by the standards of Hadith authentication. This is because of the problems with the chain of narrators of the events. Ibn Kathir, in his famous Quranic exegesis, says the following, with regards to the event:
"...these reports all come through Mursal chains of narration and I do not think that any of them may be regarded as Sahih"
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