"authentic according to the criteria of Muslim," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: All its narrators are trustworthy according to the criteria of Muslim except for Qays ibn Anīf, whom I did not recognize, and he is Qays ibn Abī Qays al-Bukhārī. Al-Mizzī mentioned him among those who narrated from Qutaybah, who is Ibn Saʿīd. I also did not find a biography for him, and from his generation is Qays ibn Muslim ibn Manṣūr al-Azraq al-Bukhārī. Al-Khaṭīb mentioned him in "Tārīkh" (12/463) and noted that he narrated in Baghdad from ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr and others. Muḥammad ibn Makhlad and al-Ṭabarānī, among others, narrated from them, and there is no mention of any criticism or commendation regarding him. I said: It is possible that he is the narrator of this ḥadīth, and his father's name is Muslim, and his kunyah is Abū Qays. As for Anīf in "al-Mustadrak," it might be a distortion from Ibn Abī Qays, and Allāh knows best, as there is much distortion and error in it. However, I saw another ḥadīth attributed to him in "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Targhīb" (1/227/564) by al-Ḥākim through the route of this Ibn Anīf, and he authenticated it. Al-Dhahabī said: "Its isnād is sound." And Allāh knows best. In any case, he was not the sole narrator of the ḥadīth, as Abū Shaykh included it in "Akhlaq al-Nabī ﷺ" (pp. 297-298) through two other routes from Abū ʿAwānah with it. Muslim (8/220), al-Tirmidhī (2373), and Aḥmad (4/268) also narrated it through other routes from Simāk ibn Ḥarb with a similar wording. Al-Tirmidhī said: "A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth." Shuʿbah disagreed with them and said: from Simāk, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, from ʿUmar, and he mentioned it, making it from the musnad of ʿUmar, which is anomalous to me. The correct view is that it is from the musnad of al-Nuʿmān as narrated by the group. Ibn Mājah (2/536) and Aḥmad (1/24) also narrated it from Shuʿbah with it.