"its narrators are trustworthy." Similarly, he said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (1/171) and added: "And among the narrators of Ibn Masʿūd's report is al-Muʿallá al-Kindī, whom Ibn Ḥibbān deemed trustworthy." I said: He mentioned it (7/492) and Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/1/320) with the narration of al-Aʿmash from him and did not add more, so he is unknown. Al-Mundhirī remained silent about it in "al-Targhīb" (1/42), and said: "The isnād of the marfūʿ is good." I said: It is as he said, and all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of Muslim except for ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ, who is truthful as in "al-Taqrīb."

"The storytellers are three: a commander, a commanded, or a deceiver." It was narrated by Ibn Wahb in "al-Jāmiʿ" (p. 88) and from him by Ibn ʿAsākir in "al-Tārīkh" (6/71/2), and al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh" (2/1/243-244), and Aḥmad (6/22, 28), and also by al-Ruyānī in "Musnad" (24/122/2) and from him by Ibn ʿAsākir as well, all through the route of Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ from Azhar ibn Saʿīd from Dhū al-Kilāʿ from ʿAwf ibn Mālik who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād's narrators are trustworthy and well-known except for Dhū al-Kilāʿ, and as Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (2/1/448): "He is the cousin of Kaʿb al-Aḥbār, Abū Sharāḥīl al-Shāmī, narrated from by Azhar ibn Saʿīd." No criticism or commendation was mentioned about him. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (4/223)! Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr also mentioned him in "al-Istīʿāb" and elaborated on his biography (2/471-474), and among what was stated in it: