from Ibn Lahīʿah, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣaʿb, from Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd in a marfūʿ manner. Ibn ʿAdī said: "No one narrates it except Ibn Lahīʿah." I said: He is weak, but he was followed by Yaḥyá ibn Ayyūb from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb with it. It was produced by al-Bayhaqī, and its wording is: "Whoever grows a gray hair in Islam, it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection." A man said: Some men pluck the gray hair, so the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Whoever wishes, let him pluck his gray hair! Or he said: its light." I said: The ḥadīth is ḥasan with this isnād. It is ṣaḥīḥ without the statement: "A man said..." etc., as it has been narrated in this manner from a group of Companions. Among them is ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah with Ibn Saʿd (1/433) and Ibn ʿAsākir in "al-Tārīkh" (13/282/1) and others, and it is referenced in "al-Taʿlīq ʿalá al-Mishkāt" (4459). Among them is ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb with Ibn Ḥibbān (1477) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" (1/4/1) and al-ʿUqaylī, and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (numbers 112 and 123 - my verification). And Abū Hurayrah with Ibn Ḥibbān (1479). And Nawf al-Bikālī in a mursal manner, narrated by Ibn ʿAsākir (17/342/2). And Abū Najīḥ al-Sulamī with Ibn Ḥibbān (1478) and al-Ḥākim (3/50) who authenticated it, and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. And Umm Sulaym with al-Ḥākim in "al-Kuná", and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Muntaqá min Masmūʿātihi bi-Marw" (p. 83/1) and he added at the end: "as long as it is not altered," which is an objectionable addition, rather false, as it has not been reported in any of the paths of the ḥadīth except in this one, which is weak due to Sālim Abū ʿAtāb, whom Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned (2/1/191) without any criticism or commendation, so he is its flaw. And there are two others in it whom I do not know. It has been authentically reported from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar that they altered the gray hair, and the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) commanded the alteration in several ḥadīths in "al-Ṣaḥīḥayn" and others, so would the reward for obeying his command (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) be the loss of the light of one's gray hair?! Then I saw the mentioned addition with al-Bayhaqī from the ḥadīth of ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah referred to..