and this chain of narration is weak due to the anonymity of the man and the narrator from him. From this perspective, it was also recorded by al-Ṭabarānī as mentioned in "al-Majmaʿ" (5/239). 3 - As for the ḥadīth of Abū Dharr, it is narrated by Ibn Lahīʿah from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hubayrah from Abū Tamīm al-Jayshānī who said: I heard Abū Dharr say: I was accompanying the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) one day to his house, and I heard him say: "Other than the Dajjāl, I fear for my nation more than the Dajjāl." When I feared he would enter, I said: O Messenger of Allāh, what do you fear for your nation more than the Dajjāl? He said: "Misleading leaders." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/145). I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, except that Ibn Lahīʿah has poor memory. 4 - As for the ḥadīth of Thawbān, it is narrated by Abū Qilābah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Jarmī who told me Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī that Thawbān told him that he heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: "What I fear for my nation are misleading leaders." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2/203), al-Dārimī (1/70 and 2/311), al-Tirmidhī (3/231 Tuḥfah), and Aḥmad (5/178) through the route of Ḥammād ibn Zayd from Ayyūb from Abū Qilābah with it. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A sound ḥadīth." I say: Its chain of narration is sound according to the criteria of Muslim. And it was corroborated by Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr who narrated to us from Abū Qilābah with it, and the chain of narration is his