I said: Its isnād is good if Usāmah ibn Zayd is al-Laythī, their client, Abū Zayd al-Madanī, and not so if he is al-ʿAdawī, their client, Abū Zayd al-Madanī, for he is weak, and it is difficult to determine which of the two is meant, as Ibn al-Mubārak narrated from both. Whichever it was, he was not alone in narrating it, for Muḥammad followed him from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd with it. It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/340). And Muḥammad is Ibn ʿAjlān, who is reliable in ḥadīth, so the ḥadīth is authentic as al-Tirmidhī said. And Allāh knows best. The ḥadīth was also recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (265) from Ibn ʿAjlān, except he said: from his father or Saʿīd. In it is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, the scribe of al-Layth, and he is weak, so the doubt is from him. And Allāh knows best. Then it became more likely to me that Usāmah is al-Laythī, as I saw al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī mentioned him among the narrators from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, not al-ʿAdawī. Thus, the ḥadīth gains strength upon strength. And Allāh knows best. Another ḥadīth will come soon under number (1730).

- "I do not accept a gift from a polytheist." It was recorded by al-Bazzār (138 - Zawāʾid) from Maʿmar and al-Bayhaqī in "Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah" (Vol. 1 - the expedition of Biʾr Maʿūnah - Aleppo manuscript) from Mūsá ibn ʿUqbah, both from Ibn Shihāb who said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik al-Sulamī narrated to me - the second added: and men from the people of knowledge - that ʿĀmir ibn Mālik ibn Jaʿfar, who was called Mulāʿib al-Asinnah, came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) while he was a polytheist. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) offered him Islam, but he refused to accept Islam, and he gifted the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) a gift, so the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said, and he mentioned it. I said: And this isnād is authentic but mursal, and Ibn al-Mubārak connected it by saying: from Maʿmar from