will be lost from your good deeds. Woe to you, O nation of Muḥammad! How quickly you are destroyed! Here are the Companions of your Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) still numerous, and his garments have not yet worn out, nor have his vessels been broken. By the One in whose hand is my soul, you are either on a path more guided than the path of Muḥammad, or you are opening a door to misguidance! They said, by Allāh: O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān! We only intended good. He said: How many intend good but do not achieve it. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) told us: (then he mentioned the ḥadīth), and by Allāh, I do not know, perhaps most of them are from among you! Then he turned away from them. ʿAmr ibn Salamah said: We saw most of those circles fighting against us on the day of Nahrawān with the Khawārij. I said: The context is from al-Dārimī and it is more complete, except that in the text of the ḥadīth he does not have: "they will pass through... like an arrow through the target." And this isnād is authentic, except that the mention of "ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyá" I suspect is a scribal error, and the correct name is "ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyá," who is ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʿAmr ibn Salamah ibn al-Ḥārith al-Hamdānī. This is how Ibn Abī Ḥātim presented it in his book "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (3/1/269), and he mentioned among those who narrated from him a group of trustworthy narrators, including Ibn ʿUyaynah, and he reported from Ibn Maʿīn that he said about him: "Ṣāliḥ." And he mentioned him correctly among those who narrated from his father, saying (4/2/176): "Yaḥyá ibn ʿAmr ibn Salamah al-Hamdānī, and it is said: al-Kindī. He narrated from his father, and from him narrated Shuʿbah, al-Thawrī, al-Masʿūdī, Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, and his son ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyá." He did not mention any criticism or praise about him, and it suffices for his reliability that Shuʿbah narrated from him, for he was selective about the men from whom he narrated, as mentioned in his biography, and it is not far-fetched that he might be among..