therefore, this narration of his is anomalous, if not objectionable, due to its contradiction with the reliable narrators. The most likely of the aforementioned aspects, as it appears to us, is the first aspect because Hishām ibn ʿUrwah is reliable, and he was followed by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Salamah in al-Bukhārī's "al-Manāqib." In "al-Jihād" and "al-Maghāzī," both Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir with it. Aḥmad also recorded it from both of them (3/338 and 365). They were followed by Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah at Aḥmad (3/307) from Ibn al-Munkadir with it. He was followed by Wahb ibn Kaysān at Aḥmad (3/314), who said: I bear witness that Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to me. So he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. In all these chains, "my maternal cousin" is only mentioned in the first and second paths, so they are also authentic. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl followed him from Jābir with the wording of the second path without: "my maternal cousin." al-Ṭabarānī recorded it (227). Then he recorded for him (228 and 243) a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of ʿAlī similar to it.

- "Reviling a believer is like being on the brink of destruction." al-Bazzār recorded it (p. 246) from Yaḥyá ibn Sulaymān, who narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, who said: I heard al-Aʿmash and al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Musayyib narrating from Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, raising it. I said: And this isnād is good; its men are reliable, the men of al-Bukhārī, except that there is discussion about the memory of Ibn Sulaymān. al-Dhahabī said: "al-Bukhārī and a group narrated from him, some of the ḥuffāẓ deemed him reliable, Abū Ḥātim said: Shaykh, al-Nasāʾī said: Not reliable. Ibn Ḥibbān said: He might narrate something strange."