and he said: "The isnād is authentic." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim, except for this Abū Saʿīd. The ḥāfiẓ mentioned him in "al-Taʿjīl" from al-Haythamī, and he said: "Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in 'al-Thiqāt.'" The ḥāfiẓ informed that in a copy of "al-Thiqāt" in the handwriting of the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Bakrī (Abū Saʿd) with a silent ʿayn, he said: a client of Banū Ghifār. And it is likewise in "al-Kuná" by Abū Aḥmad. Then I found it in "Tārīkh Ibn Yūnus," and he said: a client of Banū Ghifār. Abū Hāniʾ and Khallād ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥaḍramī narrated from him, thus providing another narrator from him. I said: Ibn Abī Ḥātim also mentioned him in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (4/379/1) without mentioning any criticism or endorsement. Al-Dūlābī deviated by mentioning him in the section of those known by their kunyas among the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in his book "al-Kuná" (1/33) and said: "And Abū Saʿīd al-Ghifārī." And he did not add more! Ibn Abī Ḥātim said in "al-ʿIlal" (2/340): "I asked my father about the ḥadīth ... Ibn Wahb from Abū Hāniʾ Ḥumayd ibn Hāniʾ al-Khawlānī from Abū Saʿīd al-Ghifārī ... (and he mentioned it) and my father said: It is only Abū Saʿīd al-Ghifārī. Then I mentioned it to ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Junayd, he said: Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us from Ibn Wahb, and he said: Abū Saʿīd al-Ghifārī." I said: In all three places it is "Saʿīd," but the meaning does not hold with it, so perhaps the correct form in the latter two is "Saʿd." And Allāh knows best