"and it was not narrated from Yaḥyá except by Ḥusayn, nor from him except by Ibrāhīm, nor from him except by al-Qāsim, and Aḥmad was unique in narrating it." I said: He is trustworthy, as are those above him. As for Aḥmad, the teacher of al-Ṭabarānī, it appears that he is Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Mawṣilī, for al-Ṭabarānī narrated another ḥadīth from him in "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" (p. 10 - Hindiyyah) through Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Asadī al-Mawṣilī, who narrated to us from al-Qāsim ibn Yazīd al-Jarmī with his isnād from Jābir. Al-Haythamī deemed its isnād ḥasan in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (2/75), so it appears that he considered him trustworthy. In fact, he explicitly stated this in his extraction of the ḥadīth of the chapter, saying (1/206): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ' and its men are the men of the ṣaḥīḥ except for the teacher of al-Ṭabarānī and his teacher's teacher, and both are trustworthy." I said: As for the statement of al-Mundhirī: "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and its narrators are the narrators of the ṣaḥīḥ." I say: there are two points to be taken: the first is that he attributed it to al-Ṭabarānī in general, which gives the impression that it is in "his major Muʿjam" and it is not so. The second is that it gives the impression that all its men are the men of the ṣaḥīḥ, which is also not the case as previously explained, so he should have qualified his statement as al-Haythamī did, and infallibility belongs to Allāh alone. Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn al-Mawṣilī, I did not find a biography for him in the sources available to me, and perhaps he is mentioned in "Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān" as suggested by the authentication of al-Haythamī and al-Mundhirī, or in "Tārīkh al-Mawṣil."

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