he said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to me: "O Thaʿlabah! Eat..." the ḥadīth, and he added: "and your trained dog, and your hand, so eat what is slaughtered and what is not slaughtered." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2856). I said: Its isnād is authentic. Yūnus ibn Sayf was deemed reliable by al-Dāraqutnī and others, and a group of trustworthy narrators reported from him. Thus, the statement of the ḥāfiẓ about him: "acceptable" means in the case of corroboration, but he is not merely acceptable; rather, he is a reliable authority. The second [route]: from al-Ḥajjāj from Makhūl from him, and al-Ḥajjāj also from al-Walīd ibn Abī Mālik from ʿĀʾidh Allāh that he heard Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī said: and he mentioned it as marfūʿ without the addition. It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1/277), and he said: "This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth, ʿĀʾidh Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh is Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī." I said: This is a strong corroboration from al-Walīd—who is Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Mālik—for Yūnus ibn Sayf in the first route, but the narrator from him is al-Ḥajjāj, who is Ibn Arṭāʾah, a known mudallis, and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah, as he did from Makhūl from him. Makhūl is also a mudallis, and considering his narration from him, it is the second route. Thus, al-Tirmidhī's authentication of the ḥadīth through the route of al-Ḥajjāj is evidently far from being correct, except that he means it is ṣaḥīḥ due to other factors, so it is authentic, but it is distant from his expression "ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ." And Allāh knows best. The third [route]: from Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah from al-Awzāʿī from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib from Abū Thaʿlabah with it. This isnād is authentic; its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs, except for Ḍamrah ibn Rabīʿah, who is trustworthy