and the people of the sunnah, which necessitates responding to him and uncovering the evils, errors, and lies in his book. The determination to critique his weak and fabricated ḥadīths has been present, and I have gathered nearly one hundred ḥadīths so far, most or all of which are in praise of ʿAlī, and they range between weak and fabricated. Their numbers in the other book are (4882 - 4960). Allāh is the one whose help is sought.

- "Visit the sick, and follow the funerals; they remind you of the Hereafter." Narrated by Abū Yaʿlá in his "Musnad" (84/1), al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (518), Ibn Ḥibbān (709), Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (248), and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (1/166/1) from Qatādah, from Abū ʿĪsá al-Aswārī, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, as marfūʿ. I say: Its isnād is good; all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Abū ʿĪsá al-Aswārī. Muslim included him as a corroborative narrator, and he was deemed reliable by al-Ṭabarānī and Ibn Ḥibbān, and a group narrated from him.

- "Divination begins with blame and ends with regret and punishment on the Day of Resurrection." Narrated by al-Ṭayālisī in his "Musnad" (no. 2526) and Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm in his "Ḥadīth" (3/148/1) (no. 125) from Hishām, from ʿAbbād ibn Abī ʿAlī, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, as marfūʿ. I say: This isnād is good; its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for ʿAbbād ibn Abī ʿAlī, who is al-Baṣrī. Along with Hishām, this - who is al-Dustawāʾī - others of the trustworthy narrated from him, including Ḥammād ibn Zayd and Khulayd ibn Ḥassān, as in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (3/1/84), and no criticism or endorsement was mentioned about him, and Ibn Ḥibbān included him among the trustworthy, and al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "Acceptable."