al-Azraq." The correct version is to omit: "ʿAbd Allāh," so it is: "Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Azraq," as this aligns with what is in "al-Awsaṭ" and "al-Musnad." However, the ḥadīth is authentic in my view in any case, as it has supporting evidence: the first is from Anas, raised [to the Prophet], with the addition: "and that mosques are taken as pathways and that sudden death becomes prevalent." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Ṣaghīr" (p. 233) and through his route by al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah" (f. 161/2) from Sharīk from al-ʿAbbās ibn Zurayḥ from al-Shaʿbī from him. Al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from al-Shaʿbī except al-ʿAbbās, and no one from him except Sharīk." I said: He has poor memory, and he was contradicted, as al-Ḍiyāʾ said: "al-Dāraquṭnī said: and others narrate it from al-Shaʿbī as mursal." I said: It was narrated in this manner by Ḥammād ibn Salamah from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah from al-Shaʿbī, raised [to the Prophet] without the addition. It was recorded by Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī in "al-Fitan" (52/2 and 53/2) through two routes from Ḥammād with it. And this is a good mursal isnād, given what is known about the condition of Ibn Bahdalah. The second is from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, raised [to the Prophet] without his saying: "and that it is seen..." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (3/78/2), al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (238), Ibn ʿAdī (231/2 and 237/2), and Tamām in "al-Fawāʾid" (41/1) from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf from Sulaymān ibn Mihrān from Shaqīq ibn Salamah from him. Al-ʿUqaylī said: "ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf is unknown in lineage and narration, and the ḥadīth is not preserved, nor..