"we do not know anyone who narrated it in this manner except Zakariyyā." I said: He is trustworthy among the shaykhs of al-Bukhārī, though there is some discussion about him. He died in the year 251, and thus he did not meet Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, who died in the year 130. It appears that an intermediary has been omitted from our copy of "al-Zawāʾid"—which is defective. Regarding the ḥadīth, al-Haythamī said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (1/58): "It was narrated by al-Bazzār, and its men are trustworthy." Then it became clear to me that the ḥadīth is not narrated by Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá, but rather by his father, Yaḥyá ibn Zakariyyā. I found the ḥadīth in "Musnad Abī Yaʿlá" (3/1031) with this isnād from this shaykh, but he said: Abū Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá al-Ṭāʾī Abū Mālik narrated to us, Shuʿayb... And in "al-Thiqāt" by Ibn Ḥibbān (2/308): "Yaḥyá ibn Zakariyyā Abū Mālik al-Ṭāʾī from the people of Basra, narrates from Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb. Bandār narrated from him." I said: He is the one who narrated this ḥadīth. Is he the father of Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Ṭāʾī Abū al-Sukayn al-Kūfī, resident of Baghdad? That is what I initially thought because they mentioned in his biography that he narrated from his father, and in the isnād of Abī Yaʿlá, it appeared as (Abū Zakariyyā) as I saw. Then doubt arose in me about whether it is him when I saw that Ibn Ḥibbān named his father Zakariyyā, and there is no Zakariyyā mentioned among the ancestors of the son. And Allāh knows best. In any case, the ḥadīth is authentic as it has been authenticated from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah separately, and its second part also came from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah and others. Refer to what was previously mentioned under numbers (284 and 521).