the verse and acted upon it. Therefore, people used to greet him as mentioned, then he came upon knowledge in this matter and forbade anyone from adding, saying: "It suffices to say 'and His blessings'." as reported by Ibn Wahb. I say: This is a false attribution to Ibn ʿUmar and also to Ibn Wahb, for the text of his narration, as he himself mentioned and quoted from "al-Futūḥāt al-Rabbāniyyah" (5/293) and this is from Ibn Ḥajar, without indicating it!: From Ibn ʿUmar that a man greeted him and added: "and His forgiveness," so Ibn ʿUmar rebuked him and said: "It suffices to say 'and His blessings'." So you see that this report is about forbidding additions in giving greetings, and that Ibn ʿUmar's addition in his response was in accordance with the verse. It is astonishing how this esteemed writer mixes up this gross confusion and dares to invalidate the practice based on the generality of the verse—according to his expression—and contradicts the reports from the predecessors that agree with it, let alone the ḥadīth, and does not notice the difference between all of that and the other two reports he mentioned about Ibn ʿUmar and Ibn ʿAbbās as previously indicated, which are about forbidding additions in giving greetings, like the report of Ibn ʿUmar whose text I just quoted, and he is very keen on deterring people who act upon it, based on this confusion in understanding and ignorance of this knowledge, and Allāh is the one whose help is sought. What confirms this is that al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said in "al-Fatḥ" (11/6 - al-Salafiyyah edition) after he presented reports of both types, and some ḥadīths that agree with the ḥadīth we are defending, and responding to those who weakened it. And he attributed it to al-Bayhaqī, not al-Bukhārī! He said: