"he is not followed in his ḥadīth and perhaps he narrated objectionable things from reliable narrators." ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb has slight weakness as clarified in "al-Lisān," so the defect is from someone above him, either ʿAbd Allāh or ʿUqbah. al-Ṭabarānī also reported it through his route in "al-Awsaṭ" and al-Bazzār as mentioned in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (5/96) and said: "And it is weak." I said: And I did not see it in "al-Ṭibb" from "Zawāʾid al-Bazzār." And Allāh knows best. Rather, it contains (p. 166) from the route of al-Waḍḍāḥ ibn Yaḥyá who narrated to us from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ from ʿĀṣim from Anas in a marfūʿ form with the wording: "He used to apply kohl an odd number of times." al-Haythamī said: "And al-Waḍḍāḥ ibn Yaḥyá is weak." I said: And its wording is ambiguous, it could mean an odd number in one eye without the other, meaning it is odd in relation to both together, which is more apparent. And it could mean an odd number in relation to each one of them, meaning three times in each eye, and this is explicitly narrated in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās, from the route of ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr from ʿIkrimah from him. But it is a chain that does not establish proof, because ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr changed at the end of his life, while also being a mudallis, as I clarified in the extraction of this ḥadīth in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" number (75), and that there are two men between him and ʿIkrimah whom he omitted, one of whom is Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yaḥyá al-Aslamī, a liar, and the other is weak. And I pointed there to the mistake of the scholar Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir in authenticating this chain