"and Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd reported from Abū al-Walīd Ibn Rushd that it is derived from His saying, the Exalted: ﴿Greet with a better greeting﴾ the permissibility of adding to the blessing when the initiator concludes with it." then he said: "And these weak ḥadīths, when combined, strengthen the consensus on the legitimacy of adding to (his blessings)." This is an important testimony from the Commander of the Faithful in ḥadīth that refutes the writer alluded to from both the ḥadīth and fiqh perspectives, and it perfectly aligns with what we have concluded in both ḥadīth and fiqh. So glad tidings to our brothers who adhere to this sunnah and others; especially those whom the writer heralded in his first letter to me, intending for them to abandon it! So ﴿glad tidings for them and a good return﴾, and all praise is due to Allāh, by whose grace righteous deeds are completed. That, then a thought occurred to me, completing what I had preferred in my response to the esteemed brother that the teacher of al-Bukhārī in the ḥadīth, which he weakened, is not Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī, the weak one, but rather Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Iṣbahānī, the trustworthy one whom al-Bukhārī relied upon in his "Ṣaḥīḥ". So I tasked one of my sons-in-law to trace for me from al-Bukhārī's "al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr" the names of (the Muḥammads) among his teachers from whom he narrated directly or indirectly, and he did so, may Allāh reward him well, revealing to me the following: that when he narrates from Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-Rāzī, he clarifies it in one of two ways: the first: by naming him attributed to his father: (Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd) as I have seen in numerous instances, and these are their numbers: