4 - As for the ḥadīth of Muʿāwiyah, it is narrated by Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr or someone else told me: "ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān fell ill, and visitors would come to see him and then leave, but Marwān would stay for a long time, which Ramlah bint Muʿāwiyah found strange. When ʿAmr went for ḥajj, Ramlah went to her father and arrived in Syria, and informed him (he said): 'Bear witness, O Marwān, that I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say' and he mentioned it." It was recorded by Ibn ʿAsākir (13/294/1). I say: This Muṣʿab is truthful and knowledgeable in genealogy, but if he accurately remembered his teacher's name as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad... then the isnād is very weak, because ʿAbd Allāh is abandoned in ḥadīth as Abū Ḥātim said, but he did not assert that it was him, rather he was uncertain whether it was him or someone else. In summary, the basis for establishing the authenticity of the ḥadīth is the first path, and the second and third paths are good witnesses for it. And Allāh knows best.

- "Usāmah is the most beloved of people, except for Fāṭimah and others." It was narrated by al-Ḥākim (3/596), Aḥmad (2/96), Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī "in the Musnad of Ibn ʿUmar" (210/1), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" (1/21/1), and Ibn ʿAsākir (2/343/1) through various chains from Ḥammād ibn Salamah from Mūsá ibn ʿUqbah from Sālim from Ibn ʿUmar as a marfūʿ ḥadīth, and the exception mentioned is not found with al-Ḥākim, and he said: