"that Zuhayr has perfected this ḥadīth, and I do not know anyone who has perfected it as he has. I said to my father: Is it preserved? He said: Zuhayr is trustworthy." I said: And Zuhayr is Ibn Muʿāwiyah, and there is a disagreement in its isnād, as Hushaym narrated it from Abū Balj from Zayd Abū al-Ḥakam al-ʿAnazī from al-Barāʾ with a similar wording. It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (5311). The ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taʿjīl" (pp. 292-293) favored Hushaym's narration because Abū ʿAwānah followed him, and he did not mention its source. Accordingly, the issue with this isnād is this Zayd, who is Ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ Abū al-Ḥakam al-ʿAnazī. Al-Dhahabī said: He is unknown. There is a corroborating ḥadīth from Anas, raised [to the Prophet] with the wording: "Whenever two Muslims meet and one of them takes the hand of his companion, it is incumbent upon Allāh to attend to their supplication and not separate their hands until He forgives them." It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/142): Muḥammad ibn Bakr narrated to us, Maymūn al-Marāʾī narrated to us, Maymūn ibn Siyāh narrated to us from Anas ibn Mālik. Al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (3/270): "It was narrated by Aḥmad, al-Bazzār, and Abū Yaʿlá, and all of Aḥmad's narrators are trustworthy except for Maymūn al-Marāʾī, and this ḥadīth is among those criticized against him." I said: He is mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" as "Maymūn ibn Mūsá al-Marʾī," and among his teachers is Maymūn ibn Siyāh, and among those who narrated from him is al-Barsānī, who is Muḥammad ibn Bakr. However, it was recorded by al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (fol. 240/1-2) from Aḥmad in this manner, and from Abū Yaʿlá and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fasawī from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah, Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Sadūsī narrated to us, Maymūn ibn ʿAjlān narrated to us from Maymūn ibn Siyāh with it. So he named Maymūn's father as ʿAjlān, and therefore al-Haythamī said in "al-Majmaʿ" (8/36):