4 - As for the ḥadīth of Buraydah, it is narrated by Abū Ḥanīfah in "his Musnad" (p. 160 with the commentary of al-Qārī) from ʿAlqamah ibn Murthad from Sulaymān ibn Buraydah from his father, in a marfūʿ form. Through the route of Abū Ḥanīfah, it was also extracted by Aḥmad (5/357), but he did not name him intentionally, as his son ʿAbdullāh said. He said: "This is how my father said, he did not name him intentionally, and someone else narrated it to us and named him, meaning Abū Ḥanīfah." Al-Haythamī alluded to this by saying in "al-Majmaʿ" (1/166): "And in it is a weak [narrator], and despite his weakness, he was not named." I said: Sulaymān al-Shādhkūnī narrated it to us from Ibn Yāmān from Sufyān from ʿAlqamah, and added: "And by Allāh, He loves the relief of the distressed." It was extracted by Tamām in "al-Fawāʾid" (227/2), Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" (162/2), and Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (1/333-334). Ibn ʿAdī said: "I do not know it except from al-Shādhkūnī, and he is a reckless memorizer in my view, one who steals ḥadīth." I said: Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him a liar, and more than one accused him of fabricating ḥadīth, and it is strange that Abū Nuʿaym did not mention any criticism or endorsement in his biography! It seems his condition was hidden from him. This, and Shaykh al-Bannā has gone far in his commentary on "al-Fatḥ al-Rabbānī" (19/72), as he said following the aforementioned statement of al-Haythamī: "I said: Abū Ḥanīfah named in the isnād, the ḥāfiẓ said in 'al-Taqrīb': Abū Ḥanīfah al-Kūfī, the father of ʿAbd al-Akram, is unknown." I said: And this is a double error: the first is that he is not this one, but rather he is the Imām Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit, the well-known