its isnād. I have undertaken to clarify this in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" under number (1099) of the third volume, so let whoever wishes to ascertain the truth refer to it. And know that this ḥadīth, despite the authentication by the previously mentioned imams and ḥadīth scholars there—namely, Imām Muslim, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Ḥākim, and al-Dhahabī, and those who acknowledged their authentication like al-Bayhaqī in his "Sunan," al-Nawawī in his "Riyāḍ," and al-ʿAsqalānī in his "Fatḥ" (4/2330) and "Talkhīṣ" (4/215), among many others who used it as evidence against the innovation of the Ṣalāt al-Raghāʾib as will be mentioned—despite all of this, the one called (Ḥassān ʿAbd al-Manān) opposed them as is his habit, including it in his "Ḍaʿīfah," which has been previously discussed, along with some of the grave errors and contradictions it contains under correction (13), clinging to the criticism by Abū Ḥātim and Abū Zurʿah, claiming that Ḥusayn al-Juʿfī erred in mentioning Abū Hurayrah in his narration from Hishām ibn Ḥassān from Ibn Sīrīn from him, and that it is actually from Ibn Sīrīn as a mursal without Abū Hurayrah. It was narrated by Ayyūb, Hishām, and others as a mursal. This is how it appeared in "ʿIlal Ibn Abī Ḥātim": "and Hishām," and I believe it is a mistake; because the narration of Hishām is musnad from Abū Hurayrah according to Muslim and others who included his ḥadīth as previously mentioned, and it was also mentioned by al-Mizzī as you know. Whatever the case may be, accusing Ḥusayn of error in his isnād from Abū Hurayrah is baseless; because he was not alone in this, as it was also connected by ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān al-Aḥwal from Ibn Sīrīn; however, he said: "from Abū al-Dardāʾ." This is a formal difference that does not harm, as it is a transition from one Companion to another, and all of them are reliable, with the possibility that Ibn Sīrīn received it from both of them, so he narrated it sometimes from this one and sometimes from that one, and this is not unusual for someone like Ibn Sīrīn, who is trustworthy and reliable. It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/444) who said: Thana Aswad ibn ʿĀmir: Thana Isrāʾīl from ʿĀṣim with it. And through the route of al-Aswad, it was recorded by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (2/141-142). This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs