third: the shaykh's doubt about the validity of Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd's question to ʿAbbād regarding whether he heard those ḥadīths from ʿIkrimah? His doubt was not due to any weakness in the isnād that he discovered, but rather due to what he claimed was a discrepancy in the matn! He mentioned that it appeared in "al-Mīzān" with the wording: "Ibn Abī Yaḥyá narrated to me" instead of "Ibn Abī Yaḥyá narrated them to me," which was previously quoted from "al-Tahdhīb." I say: Even though such a difference is not considered a significant discrepancy affecting authenticity by those knowledgeable in this science, since the first narration—if said to be ambiguous—can be interpreted in light of the first one, as it is more detailed, as is clear. Nevertheless, the first wording is more likely, indeed it is more likely in my view due to its confirmation in the book "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" by al-ʿUqaylī, and its isnād is as follows (p. 273): Muḥammad ibn Mūsá narrated to us, he said: Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, he said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Ḥaddādī say: I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī say: I heard Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān say: and he mentioned it, and it was narrated by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī in "al-Tahdhīb" through the route of al-ʿUqaylī. I said: This isnād is good, this al-Ḥaddād is trustworthy, mentioned in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (4/183-140), he died in the year 201 or 202. Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān is Abū Jaʿfar al-Miṣṣīṣī known as Lawīn, as it appears, and he is trustworthy, one of the men of "al-Tahdhīb," he died in the year 240. Muḥammad ibn Mūsá is Abū ʿAbdullāh known as al-Nahartīrī, and he is a trustworthy and eminent figure, also mentioned in "al-Tārīkh" (3/241-242), he died in the year 289. I said: Thus, this extraction shows that the matter is correctly established from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān with the wording that invalidates Shaykh Aḥmad's interpretation as previously mentioned, and confirms ʿAbbād's admission that he did not hear those ḥadīths from ʿIkrimah, but rather received them from Ibrāhīm—who is very weak as the shaykh admitted—from Dāwūd who is weak specifically in [narrations from] ʿIkrimah. fourth: As for the shaykh's claim that Ibn Abī Yaḥyá is not Ibrāhīm, but rather Muḥammad ibn Abī