(38 - 39) ibn Lahīʿah narrated to me from al-Walīd ibn Abī al-Walīd from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from his father that he heard Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān mention that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) met him and said: O Ḥudhayfah, give me your hand, so he withheld his hand, then the second time, then the third time, and he said: What prevents you? He replied: I am in a state of impurity, so he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is good; its men are trustworthy, the men of Muslim, except that he only included ibn Lahīʿah—whose name is ʿAbd Allāh—when paired with others, and his ḥadīth is authentic if narrated by the ʿAbādilah from him, like this, as is established in his biography. Al-Walīd ibn Abī al-Walīd is Abū ʿUthmān al-Madanī, a client of Ibn ʿUmar, and it is said: a client of the family of ʿUthmān. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (4/2/20): "Al-Bukhārī considered him two names, my father said: he is one. Abū Zurʿah was asked about him? He said he is trustworthy." I said: This authentication was overlooked by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar, as he did not mention it in the biography of this al-Walīd in "al-Tahdhīb" and did not report any authentication except from Ibn Ḥibbān, who included him in "al-Thiqāt" (1/246), and he is known for being lenient in authentication, and therefore the scholars do not rely on him. Al-Ḥāfiẓ followed this in "al-Taqrīb" and said about him: "weak in ḥadīth." And I suspect that if he had come across Abū Zurʿah's authentication of him, he would have authenticated him and not deemed him weak. And Allāh knows best. The ḥadīth was also narrated by Ibn Shāhīn in "al-Targhīb" (folio 310/2) from al-Walīd ibn Abī al-Walīd al-Madīnī from Yaʿqūb al-Ḥarqī from Ḥudhayfah with it. Thus it is in my draft, without clarification of the narrator from al-Walīd, whether he is trustworthy or not, although the assumption is that his omission or lack of mention is usually because he is trustworthy. The original is not with me now, as it is in al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, and I am writing this in Damascus (3/4/1387), and therefore I cannot compare this isnād with the isnād of Ibn Wahb and weigh between them. There is another chain for the ḥadīth in "al-Jāmiʿ," but it is weak, as he said (27): Ibn..