and he said: Yūnus is more reliable in [narrating from] al-Zuhrī than others. Mūsá ibn Hārūn and others decisively stated that it is an insertion. We also narrated it in "The Benefits of Ibn Abī Maysarah" through the route of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Rafīʿ from Ibn Shihāb. He transmitted it with his chain, limiting it to the addition, which is a severe error. I say: there is no error from him at all, for he is trustworthy and his ḥadīth is authentic as previously mentioned. He was followed by two trustworthy individuals, Ibn Jurayj and Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, and the first of them also limited it to the addition as previously explained. These are three reliable and trustworthy individuals who agreed on attributing this addition, with two of them separating it from the beginning of the ḥadīth and the other, Ṣāliḥ, connecting it. Their agreement is proof, indicating that it is an elevated and established addition and not an insertion as the ḥāfiẓ claimed. It is surprising how the narration of Ibn Jurayj was hidden from him, so he did not mention it at all, and how he limited the attribution of the narration of Ibn Rafīʿ to "The Benefits of Ibn Abī Maysarah" when it is also in "The Sunan" and "The Musnad"? It is supported by what al-Ḥumaydī recorded in "His Musnad" (329): Sufyān narrated to us, saying: Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym narrated to me from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār who said: "A man came to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: O Messenger of Allāh, is there any sin upon me if I lie to my family? He said: No, for Allāh does not love lying. He said: O Messenger of Allāh, I seek to reconcile with her and please her! He said: There is no sin upon you." I said: This is a sound chain of transmission, but it is mursal and not according to the conditions of "His Musnad." He included it in "The Ḥadīths of Umm Kulthūm bint ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿayṭ" from it, as if indicating that even though the ḥadīth reached him in this mursal form, he leans towards it being from her Musnad, and thus he included it. And Allāh knows best. It is also supported by the ḥadīth of Shahr ibn Ḥawshab from Asmāʾ bint Yazīd from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who said: "Lying is not permissible except in three cases: a man's lie to his wife to please her, lying in war, for war is deception, or lying to reconcile between people." Aḥmad recorded it (6/459, 461) and al-Tirmidhī (3/127 - Tuhfat) and said: "A good ḥadīth."