(Note): The commentator on "Ṣifat al-Jannah" (1/160) said: "This isnād is weak; al-Aʿmash is a mudallis and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah, and here he does not narrate from the likes of Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān, Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, and Abū (sic) Wāʾil, for his narration from these is considered connected. See 'al-Mīzān' (2/224)." I say: The response is from two aspects: first, that al-Dhahabī's words do not imply exclusivity to these shaykhs because he mentioned them by way of example, saying: "like Ibrāhīm and..." and the second: that the ʿanʿanah of al-Aʿmash from Abū Ẓabyān was accepted by al-Bukhārī, for he included with this isnād another ḥadīth from Ibn ʿAbbās, number (4706).

"There is no zakāt on horses and slaves except the zakāt al-fiṭr on slaves." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/253) and from him by al-Bayhaqī (4/117) from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, who narrated to us from ʿUbayd Allāh from a man from Makhūl from ʿUrāk ibn Mālik from Abū Hurayrah as marfūʿ. This isnād is weak due to the anonymity of the man who was not named. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb—who is Ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Thaqafī and is trustworthy from the men of the two Shaykhs—was contradicted in his isnād, for Yaḥyá ibn Zakarīyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah said: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to me from Abū al-Zinād from al-Aʿraj from Abū Hurayrah with it. It was recorded by al-Khaṭīb (14/114) and al-Bayhaqī, who said: "Thus it was narrated with this isnād from ʿUbayd Allāh." Then he provided the first isnād from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, and said: "This is the more authentic, and his ḥadīth from Abū al-Zinād is not preserved, and Makhūl did not hear it from..