"it was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" with two isnāds, and in them are Yazīd al-Raqāshī and Jābir al-Juʿfī, both of whom are weak, although they have been deemed reliable." I said: the aforementioned reliability is not to be considered, especially in the case of al-Juʿfī, as some have accused him, but he is not in the other path reported by al-Ṭabarānī, and he was followed by al-Khalīl ibn Murrah, who is better than him as previously established. When this path is combined with the path of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd, the ḥadīth gains strength. And Allāh, the Exalted, knows best.

- "The two who compete with each other are not to be answered, nor is their food to be eaten." This is how it was mentioned by al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī in "al-Mishkāt" (3226), then by al-Suyūṭī in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" from the narration of al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" from Abū Hurayrah, attributed [to the Prophet]. Al-Munāwī said: "It was also narrated by Ibn Lāl and al-Daylamī from him." This is what he said, and he did not comment on its isnād, but I have reviewed it, and Ibn al-Sammāk said in a section of "his ḥadīth" (folio 64/1): Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Ahwāzī narrated to us, Maʿādh ibn Asad informed us, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḍarīr informed us from Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkārī from al-Aʿmash from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurayrah with it, except that he said: "the two who show off." There is a mark (ṣ) indicating that it is so in the original, and the manuscript is good, as it is in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir, the historian of Damascus, and his hearing. I said: And this isnād is authentic, its men are trustworthy, the men of al-Bukhārī, except for Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Ahwāzī, whom al-Khaṭīb translated and said (9/97):