5 - As for the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, it is narrated by Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from al-Aʿmash from Abū Ṣāliḥ from him, reported in a marfūʿ form with the wording: "On the night of the middle of Shaʿbān, Allāh forgives His servants except for a polytheist or one harboring enmity." It was recorded by al-Bazzār in his "Musnad" (p. 245 - Zawāʾid). Al-Haythamī said: "I did not know Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, but the rest of the narrators are trustworthy." 6 - As for the ḥadīth of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, it is narrated by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Malik from Muṣʿab ibn Abī Dhūʾayb from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad from his father or uncle from him. It was recorded by al-Bazzār as well as Ibn Khuzaymah in "al-Tawḥīd" (p. 90), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, al-Lālakāʾī in "al-Sunnah" (1/99/1), Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (2/2), and al-Bayhaqī as mentioned in "al-Targhīb" (3/283), who said: "There is no harm in its isnād." Al-Haythamī said: "ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-Malik was mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in 'al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl' and was not weakened. The rest of the narrators are trustworthy." This is what they both said, and this ʿAbd al-Malik was remarked upon by al-Bukhārī: "There is some consideration in his ḥadīth," referring to this ḥadīth as in "al-Mīzān." 7 - As for the ḥadīth of ʿAwf ibn Mālik, it is narrated by Ibn Lahīʿah from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Anʿam from ʿUbādah ibn Nasī from Kathīr ibn Murrah from him. It was recorded by Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī in "al-Majlis al-Sābiʿ" and al-Bazzār in "Musnad" (p. 245) who said: "Its isnād is weak." I said: Its defect is this ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and al-Haythamī criticized it by saying: "Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ considered him trustworthy, but the majority of the imams considered him weak, and Ibn Lahīʿah is lenient, while the rest of the narrators are trustworthy."