and the other: in this case, it is necessary to retain the text with the authentic isnād and remove the one with a weak isnād, not the opposite, as occurred in this ḥadīth. And Allāh knows best.

"There is no one who sends peace upon me except that Allāh returns my soul to me so that I may return the greeting." It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (1/319), al-Bayhaqī in "Sunan" (5/245), Aḥmad (2/227), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (449) from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Iskandarānī from Ḥayywah ibn Sharīḥ from Abū Ṣakhr from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qusaiṭ from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ form. Al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from Yazīd except Abū Ṣakhr, and no one from him except Ḥayywah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd was unique in narrating it." I say: He is al-Muqriʾ, a trustworthy narrator from the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], and likewise those above him, except for Abū Ṣakhr—who is Ḥumayd ibn Ziyād—about whom there is a difference of opinion, but the preferred view in my opinion is that he is ḥasan in ḥadīth. In "Taqrīb": "Truthful but makes mistakes." And this is closer to the correct opinion than what is stated in "al-Fatḥ" (6/279): "Its narrators are trustworthy"! Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī said in "Takhrīj al-Iḥyāʾ" (1/279): "Its isnād is good." As for al-Nawawī, he said in "al-Riyāḍ" (1409): "Its isnād is authentic"! And al-Munāwī agreed with him in "al-Taysīr"!