the ḥāfiẓ quoted in "al-Lisān" from al-Dhahabī's "Talkhīṣ" that he said about al-Muntaṣir ibn ʿAmārah and his father: "Unknown." (Note): After writing the aforementioned, I returned to some of my old sources that I have, and I found in it that Abū Yaʿlá al-Mawṣilī reported the ḥadīth in "Ḥadīth Muḥammad ibn Bashshār" (127/1) from the path of Shuʿbah with its previous isnād from Ḥudhayfah, both as a marfūʿ and mawqūf, with the mawqūf being more prevalent. And it came in some of its paths as follows: "Bandār - who is Muḥammad ibn Bashshār - said: I said to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī: Do you preserve this ḥadīth from Shuʿbah? He said: Yes. I said: Narrate it to me. He said: Shuʿbah narrated to me from Yazīd Abū Khālid. I said to him: al-Dalānī? He said: Not al-Dalānī. So I said to him: There is someone here who narrates it from Shuʿbah from Yazīd Abū Khālid al-Dalānī, so I insisted on him? I said: Ḥaramī ibn ʿAmārah, he said: Woe to him! How little is his knowledge of ḥadīth! Yazīd al-Dalānī is too young to have heard from Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥudhayfah." I said: And I do not find what compels us to deny his hearing from him, for Abū ʿUbaydah is a tābiʿī from the second level according to the ḥāfiẓ, and they mentioned for him - I mean Abū Khālid - a narration from Qatādah, who is the head of the fourth level according to him, and from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, who is from the third level, and Yaḥyá ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭalḥah al-Anṣārī, and Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saksakī, and they are from the fifth, and all of these narrated from the Companions, like Abū ʿUbaydah, so what prevents Abū Khālid from having heard from him as he heard from these tābiʿīn whom we mentioned and others whom we did not mention? Rather, this is what the action of the ḥāfiẓ in the biography of Abū Khālid indicates, for he said: "He is from the seventh." And he mentioned in the introduction that the sixth level are those who contemporized the fifth, but it was not established for them to have met any of the Companions like Ibn Jurayj, and that the seventh are the senior followers of the tābiʿīn like Mālik and al-Thawrī