"and the rest of its narrators are those of the authentic collections!" Thus he said, and I do not know if the teacher of Qays in al-Ṭabarānī's narration is other than Ashʿath ibn Sawār.

"He would apply kohl to his right eye three times and to his left eye twice." It was recorded by Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/484) from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar from ʿImrān ibn Abī Anas who said: He mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I said: This is a strong mursal isnād, ʿImrān is a tābiʿī, who died in the year 117. Then Professor Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ informed me of its connected chain in "Akhlaq al-Nabī ﷺ" by Abū al-Shaykh (p. 183) from this route from ʿImrān from Anas as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Its narrators are trustworthy, so it is established as connected, and all praise is due to Allāh. It has also been narrated with supporting evidence through the route of ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb al-Zubayrī who informed us from ʿUqbah ibn ʿAlī from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar from Nāfiʿ from Ibn ʿUmar as a marfūʿ ḥadīth with the wording: "When he applied kohl, he would put it in the right eye three times and in the left eye twice, making it an odd number." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (3/199/1). I said: This isnād is weak, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who is al-ʿUmari al-Mukabbir, is weak. And ʿUqbah ibn ʿAlī is not well-known, as al-ʿUqaylī mentioned in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ"