all of which collectively indicate that the ḥadīth has a strong foundation, especially the second and fifth routes, whose chains of transmission are sound as you have known. b - As for the mursal [ḥadīth], its narrators are also five: the first is ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, who said in "al-Zuhd" (279): Sufyān informed us from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir that he narrated to them: A man said to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): Do the people of Paradise sleep? He said: and he mentioned it except that he said: "And the people of Paradise do not die." The second and third are Quṭbah ibn al-ʿAlāʾ and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsá, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) similarly. Al-ʿUqaylī recorded them (221). The fourth and fifth: Then al-ʿUqaylī said: "It was narrated by al-Ashjaʿī and Mukhallad ibn Yazīd and others, thus mursal." I said: And all these five are trustworthy except Quṭbah ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, and there is no doubt that their mursal narration is stronger than the narration of those who reported it with a chain. If the one who reported it with a chain were alone, their narration would make us believe he erred in his chain, but since they are a group, there is no way to accuse them of error. The correct view is to affirm its authenticity both with a chain and as mursal, and there is no contradiction between them, for the narrator may sometimes be active and narrate it with a chain, and at other times not and narrate it as mursal. The other route: Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir from Jābir with it. Ibn ʿAdī recorded it (388/1) and al-Ṭabarānī, and from him al-Ḍiyāʾ in "Ṣifat al-Jannah" (3/84/1) from Muṣʿab ibn Ibrāhīm who narrated to us from ʿImrān ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Kūfī from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd with it. Ibn ʿAdī said: "This Muṣʿab is unknown, and his ḥadīths from trustworthy narrators are not preserved." Al-ʿUqaylī said (416): "There is scrutiny in his ḥadīth." And I did not find a biography for ʿImrān ibn al-Rabīʿ. 2 - As for the ḥadīth of Ibn Abī Awfá, it is narrated by Abū ʿUbaydah Saʿīd ibn Zarbī from Thābit al-Bunānī from Nafīʿ ibn al-Ḥārith from him, raised similarly. Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in "Ṣifat al-Jannah." I said: And this chain is very weak, this Nafīʿ is abandoned, and Ibn Maʿīn declared him a liar. And Ibn Zarbī is denounced in ḥadīth as in "al-Taqrīb." In summary, the ḥadīth is authentic from some of its routes from Jābir, and Allāh knows best