it is mentioned in "al-Lisān": "ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nuʿaym ibn Quraysh. He was in the era of al-Dāraqutnī. And it is said in "al-Muʾtalif wa-al-Mukhtalif": that he has rare ḥadīths, concluded. And it is said: I asked Abū Zurʿah about him, and he said: A Kufan, I know him only in one ḥadīth from Ibn ʿUmar. Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif narrated from him." I say: This is a gross confusion between two biographies, for this statement of Abū Zurʿah is actually about ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aʿrajī, the owner of this ḥadīth, and he is a Tābiʿī as you see, so how can he be from the era of al-Dāraqutnī. It is likely that there is an omission in the manuscript between his saying: concluded. and his saying: "And it is said," then who is the subject in "And it is said: he said"? However, the ḥadīth, with the combination of the two paths, is ḥasan, and it is authentic with its numerous corroborations from the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, Jābir ibn Samurah, and Thawbān, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). 1 - As for the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, it has multiple paths and wordings from him, the closest of which to the ḥadīth of the translation is the narration of Khallās from him, raised with the wording: "Before the Hour, there will be nearly thirty impostors, each claiming: I am a prophet, I am a prophet!" It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/429) with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs. It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (2/406 and 4/380), Muslim (8/189), al-Tirmidhī (2/34), and Aḥmad as well (2/236-237, 313, and 530) through other paths from him with the wording: "The Hour will not be established until impostors, liars, nearly thirty, are sent, each claiming to be the Messenger of Allāh." Al-Tirmidhī said: "A ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth." 2 - As for the ḥadīth of Jābir ibn Samurah, it is narrated by Simāk from him, raised with the wording: