from his criticism of the ḥadīth with the ḥadīth of intercession: "Imām al-Bukhārī said in 'al-Tārīkh al-Ṣaghīr' after he presented the chains of this ḥadīth and pointed out their defects: and the report from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) regarding intercession... is more numerous and clearer." I say: this is undoubtedly true according to the scholars, as for it being more numerous, it is well-known in the books of the sunnah, and I have extracted a group of them in 'Ẓilāl al-Jannah' (2/401-404). As for it being clearer; it is sufficient to indicate this by the fact that the mentioned person was only confused by the ḥadīth of the chapter and did not understand its aspect; unlike the ḥadīth of intercession which he adopted, and used it against the ḥadīth of the chapter, even though there is no contradiction between them as previously explained. However, the statement of the mentioned person about al-Bukhārī that he pointed out the defects of the chains of the ḥadīth he presented; this is a lie against al-Bukhārī! For al-Bukhārī did not add in 'al-Ṣaghīr' more than presenting the ḥadīth with the concise wording that I had presented there at the end of the extraction from the route of Abū Burdah from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd, as al-Bukhārī presented it in 'al-Ṣaghīr' (p. 118 - Hindiyyah) from four routes from Abū Burdah, saying in three of them: "from a man of the Anṣār" without naming him, and added in the second of them: "from his father." And he said in the fourth: "from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd I heard the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)," thus naming him and explicitly stating his hearing it from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and I had presented it there as a witness for the ḥadīth of Abū Mūsá. And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd is the Anṣārī al-Khaṭmī, he and his father were Companions. Then al-Bukhārī followed these four routes with his statement: "It is narrated from Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyá and... Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah and... al-Bukhtarī ibn al-Mukhtār... and from Abū Burdah from his father from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and there is scrutiny in their isnāds, and the first is more likely, and the report from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) regarding intercession... is more numerous and clearer." I said: so you see that al-Bukhārī did not clarify the defect of these routes he referred to, but rather