thus they said, and Faḍīl ibn Marzūq, although he is among the men of Muslim, has some weakness in his memory, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "Truthful but makes mistakes." And his teacher Abū Isḥāq is al-Sabīʿī, who is mixed up and a mudallis, and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah. Faḍīl was inconsistent in his isnād, sometimes saying "from him," and other times saying "from ʿAṭiyyah." Thus, the ḥadīth from this perspective is weak. However, it has a supporting narration from Abū Hurayrah, narrated by Saʿīd ibn ʿĪsá—neighbor of Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ—who reported to us from Ḥammād ibn Salamah from Ayyūb, Yūnus, and Ḥumayd from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn from Abū Hurayrah, who mentioned it as marfūʿ without mentioning the garments, and added at the end: "There is no bachelor in Paradise." Al-Khaṭīb recorded it in the biography of this Saʿīd in "al-Tārīkh" (9/87) without mentioning any criticism or commendation, and he referred to him as Abū ʿUthmān known as al-Balkhī. I suspect he is the one mentioned in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (2/1/51): "Saʿīd ibn ʿĪsá ibn Talīd al-Ruʿaynī Abū ʿUthmān, an Egyptian who narrated from al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, Ibn Wahb, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim. My father heard from him and when I asked about him, he said: 'There is no harm in him, he is trustworthy.'" I said: If this is al-Balkhī, then he would be an Egyptian who traveled to Baghdad, as he is from this generation. And Allāh knows best. He was corroborated, as Imām Aḥmad said (2/345): ʿAffān narrated to us, Ḥammād ibn Salamah informed us, Yūnus from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn with it, without the first part of it and without the addition. Muslim (8/146) and Aḥmad (2/230, 247, 507) also recorded it through other routes from Ayyūb with it complete, without the garments. Al-Dārimī (2/336) recorded it from the route of Hishām al-Quradūsī from Ibn Sīrīn, the second part of it