and al-Ṭaḥāwī in "al-Mushkil" (1/68) through various chains from al-Awzāʿī with it, except that they said: "from Abū Qilābah who said: Abū Masʿūd said to Abū ʿAbd Allāh, or Abū ʿAbd Allāh said to Abū Masʿūd: What did you hear..." etc. This is a sound isnād; its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, and Abū Qilābah explicitly stated the transmission in the narration of al-Walīd ibn Muslim who said: al-Awzāʿī informed us, Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr informed us, Abū Qilābah informed us, Abū ʿAbd Allāh informed us with it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. It was narrated by al-Ṭaḥāwī and Ibn Mandah in "al-Maʿrifah" (2/251/2). I said: This is a sound isnād connected with transmission, and Abū Dāwūd said: "This Abū ʿAbd Allāh is Ḥudhayfah." I said: This was clarified in the isnād of Aḥmad: "or Abū Masʿūd said to Abū ʿAbd Allāh meaning Ḥudhayfah." Therefore, he included it in "Musnad Ḥudhayfah." Yaḥyá ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz contradicted all of them and said: from Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr from Abū Qilābah from Abū al-Muhallab that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir said: O Abū Masʿūd, what did you hear... etc. This is an anomalous, rather rejected, narration, for this Yaḥyá is not well-known for his memory and precision. Therefore, the ḥāfiẓ said: "acceptable," meaning when corroborated, otherwise weak when solitary, as is his terminology. How then, when he contradicted? I said: In the ḥadīth, there is a censure of using this word "they claim," even though in the language it can mean "he said," as is known. Therefore, it only appears in the Qurʾān in reporting about the blameworthy with blameworthy things from them, such as His saying, the Exalted: "Those who disbelieve claim that they will never be resurrected" (Sūrah al-Taghābun, verse 7) and then followed