"with a sound chain of narration!" al-Dhahabī refuted it by saying: "I said: Zakariyyā was deemed weak." and I say, the correct view is that the ḥadīth is authentic due to other supporting narrations, as it has corroborating evidence. The first: from Ibn ʿUmar that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. It was narrated by al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (4/92) and al-Qaḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (Q 116/1) from ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muthanná who said: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī ʿAwn narrated to us, Abū Muṣʿab narrated to us from Mālik from Nāfiʿ from him. al-Khaṭīb said: "Very rare from the narration of Mālik; I do not know anyone who narrated it other than Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī ʿAwn from Abū Muṣʿab, and from him ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá al-Mālīnī, and he was trustworthy." I said: Likewise, his teacher Abū Jaʿfar is also trustworthy as al-Khaṭīb mentioned in his biography (1/311). And Abū Muṣʿab, his name is Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī al-Madanī, and he is trustworthy among the narrators of the two Shaykhs, as are those above him, and the chain, despite its rarity, is authentic. The second: from Ibn ʿAbbās, raised [to the Prophet], similar to it. It was narrated by Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (3/304, 8/290) through the route of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmārah from al-Ḥakam from Mujāhid from him, and he said: "Rare from the narration of al-Ḥakam; we did not write it except from the narration of al-Ḥasan from him." I said: al-Ḥasan is abandoned. The third: Ibn al-Mubārak said in "al-Zuhd" (509): Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh informed us, he said: ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Rāfiʿ narrated to me that men from the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) narrated that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it