as for Ibn Ḥibbān, he mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (1/264). On the other hand, it is authentic because ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sinān, as Ibn Maʿīn said, is trustworthy and he is a Kufan as mentioned in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (2/2/68). He narrated from Ibn Masʿūd and Saʿd ibn Masʿūd, and other than al-Aʿmash, Abū Ḥuṣayn narrated from him. In "Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān" (3/143): "ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sinān: I heard Ibn ʿAbbās ... narrated from al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid." But this aspect is anomalous. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said in "al-ʿIlal" (2/245): "My father said: al-Thawrī contradicted the majority in this ḥadīth, and the first is authentic." al-Ṭabarānī mentioned something similar. I say: So al-Ḥākim's statement about it: "authentic isnād," is something he was lenient about. However, Ibn Shāhīn narrated it—as in "al-Iṣābah"—through the route of Mūsá ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr from his father from Ḍirār with its meaning. This is a strong corroboration, for ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr is among the men of the two Shaykhs. But his son Mūsá, as Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/1/151) said about his father: "weak in ḥadīth." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" as in "al-Lisān," so the ḥadīth with the combination of the two routes is ḥasan. And Allāh knows best. The meaning of the ḥadīth: Leave a little milk in the udder, and do not drain it completely, for what you leave in it calls forth the rest of the milk to come down. If you exhaust all that is in the udder, its flow will slow for the milker. This is mentioned in "al-Nihāyah."

- "The blood of a white sheep is more beloved to Allāh than the blood of two black ones." Narrated by al-Ḥākim (4/227), Aḥmad (2/417), and Ibn ʿAsākir (6/97/1) from Abīthfāl from Rabāḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ form