and among the supporting narrations is the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, reported as marfūʿ, with the wording: "Seek Laylat al-Qadr in the last ten nights of Ramadan, in nine remaining, seven remaining, five remaining, and three remaining." It was recorded by al-Ṭayālisī (962) without mentioning the nine, and by Aḥmad (3/71) with this context, and its isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim. It is also found in his work (3/173) through another route from Abū Naḍrah, with the wording: "Seek it in the last ten nights of Ramadan, seek it in the ninth, seventh, and fifth." He said: "I said, 'O Abū Saʿīd, you are more knowledgeable about the numbers than us.' He said, 'Indeed, we are more entitled to that than you.' I said, 'What is the ninth, seventh, and fifth?' He said, 'When twenty-one have passed, the one that follows is twenty-two, which is the ninth. When twenty-three have passed, the one that follows is the seventh. When twenty-five have passed, the one that follows is the fifth.'" It is also in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (1252). The ḥadīth has many supporting narrations from a group of Companions, including Jābir ibn Samurah with al-Ṭayālisī, Aḥmad, and al-Ṭabarānī, and Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān with Ibn Naṣr in "Qiyām al-Layl" (106), and ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit with him also (p. 105) and Aḥmad (5/313, 318, 319, 321, 324), with an addition in one narration: "Whoever stands [in prayer] on that night seeking it and out of faith, then his past and future sins are forgiven." In its isnād is ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (3/1/120) for this isnād without mentioning any criticism or endorsement. As for Ibn Ḥibbān, he mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (1/145) according to his methodology. It was narrated from him by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl, and it was critiqued by al-Haythamī, who said: