"it was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" and its narrators are those of the authentic [collections]." thus, it follows his usual practice of not intending by such a statement to refer to a narrator from Muslim's "Ṣaḥīḥ" in the isnād of the ḥadīth, and here it is ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, and it is evident that there is some leniency in this. Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī disagreed with him, saying: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us from Thumāmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Anas from Anas with it. It was produced by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (1/82/1), Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" (Q 48/2), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (70/1) and he said: "It was narrated by Abū Salamah Mūsá ibn Ismāʿīl from Ḥammād from Thumāmah that the Prophet ﷺ. It is mursal. I said: And it was narrated by more than one person connected as we have produced it, among them al-Muʾammil ibn Ismāʿīl and al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār. And Allāh knows best." Then he said: "al-Dāraqūṭnī said: It was narrated by Ḥaramī ibn ʿAmārah and Saʿīd ibn ʿĀṣim al-Mulḥī - a Basran shaykh - from Ḥammād from Thumāmah from Anas. Wakīʿ and Abū ʿAmr al-Ḥawḍī disagreed with them, narrating it from Ḥammād from Thumāmah as mursal, and this is the correct [version]." Thus he said, and the corroboration of Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī - who is trustworthy - with those mentioned strengthens the connection. And Allāh knows best. Perhaps Thumāmah's narration from Anas is more likely than his narration from al-Barāʾ, for Ibn ʿAdī said: "Thumāmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh, I hope there is no harm in him, and his ḥadīths are close to others, and he is sound in what he narrates from Anas according to me." I said: And the two Shaykhs and others used him as evidence, and Aḥmad and al-Nasāʾī and others deemed him trustworthy. And Ḥammād ibn Salamah is trustworthy from the narrators of Muslim. And Allāh knows best.