it was recorded by al-Ḥākim (4/449) who said: "Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs." And al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: Abū Asmāʾ, whose name is ʿAmr ibn Murthad, was not relied upon by al-Bukhārī. Maʿmar differed in his isnād, saying: Ayūb informed me from Abū Qilābah from Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī from Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī from Shaddād ibn Aws in a marfūʿ form. It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (1564) and Aḥmad (4/123). Thus, he made it from the musnad of Shaddād and inserted Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī between him and Abū Qilābah. If Maʿmar preserved it accurately, then Abū Qilābah has two isnāds for this ḥadīth, one from Abū Asmāʾ from Thawbān, and the other from Abū al-Ashʿath from Abū Asmāʾ from Shaddād. And Allāh knows best. 5 - As for the ḥadīth of Shaddād, it has been mentioned in the previous one. 6 - As for the ḥadīth of ʿAlī, it is narrated by Jābir from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Najī from him. This isnād is weak as I have clarified in "Takhrīj al-Sunnah li-Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim" (100).

"The best of people in recitation is the one who, when he recites, you see that he fears Allāh." It was narrated by Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (2/58) from Yaḥyá ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Miṣrī, who narrated to us from his father, who narrated to us from Ibn Lahīʿah from Yazīd ibn Yazīd from Ibn Shihāb from ʿUrwah from ʿĀʾishah in a marfūʿ form. I said: With this isnād, it was also recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (3/101/1), but he said: from Ibn Lahīʿah from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār from Ṭāwūs from Ibn ʿAbbās in a marfūʿ form, except that he said: