then I saw that Ibn Abī Ḥātim had criticized the ḥadīth of al-Aṭrābulusī with a strange defect, saying (2/126): "My father said: This is a rejected ḥadīth; it is possible that between Muʿāwiyah and Abū al-Zinād is ʿAbbād ibn Kathīr, and in my opinion, it is al-Aṭrābulusī." I said: This is an invalid assumption that can be claimed in all authentic narrations from reliable narrators, so such a claim is not accepted without evidence, which he did not mention. Yes, he mentioned it elsewhere, and when I reviewed it, its weakness became apparent, and the rejection of the assumption was confirmed. He said (2/133) about his father: "I was impressed by this ḥadīth until its flaw became apparent to me, and it turned out to be Muʿāwiyah from ʿAbbād ibn Kathīr from Abū al-Zinād. Abū Zurʿah said: The correct narration is what al-Darāwardī narrated from ʿAbbād ibn Kathīr from Abū al-Zinād. So between Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyá and Abū al-Zinād is ʿAbbād ibn Kathīr, and ʿAbbād is not strong." I said: It does not follow from al-Darāwardī's narration from ʿAbbād that others' narration from Abū al-Zinād is through him; do you not see that Ṭāriq ibn ʿAmmār and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan both narrated it from Abū al-Zinād with him. The claim that between these three and their teacher Abū al-Zinād is ʿAbbād, who is abandoned, is a false and rejected claim whose corruption is not hidden. And I am amazed at how this imam could have gone to it! (al-Muʾnah) and it is said: (al-Muʾūnah): sustenance, and the plural is (Muʾan) and (Muʾūnāt) as in "al-Muʿjam al-Wasīṭ."

- "Indeed, Allāh creates the clouds, and they speak the best speech and laugh the best laughter." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/435), al-ʿUqaylī (p. 10), Ibn Mandah in "al-Maʿrifah" (2/279/1), al-Rāmhormuzī in "al-Amthāl" (p. 154 - Hind), and al-Bayhaqī in "al-Asmāʾ."