he said, from Sulaymān Abū al-Rabīʿ (and in "al-Mīzān" and "al-Lisān": Ibn al-Rabīʿ) (from) the client of Anas. This is inverted, and the correct version is: al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān or Sulaym. The variation in the pronunciation of his name is a clear indication that the man is neither famous nor well-known. Ibn Abī Ḥātim has included a biography of Rabīʿ ibn Sulaym al-Azdī Abū Sulaymān al-Khalaqānī al-Baṣrī in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (1/2/443). It includes the statement of Ibn Maʿīn and Abū Ḥātim mentioned earlier. However, the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Lisān" differentiated between al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaym al-Kūfī, the narrator of this ḥadīth, and al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaym al-Baṣrī al-Khalaqānī. It is surprising that he repeated the statement of Ibn Maʿīn and Abū Ḥātim referred to earlier without the slightest indication. It appears to me that the Kūfī is different from the Baṣrī, and the former is the one associated with this ḥadīth, who is unknown, while the latter is the one weakened by Ibn Maʿīn and has no connection to this ḥadīth. And Allāh knows best. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said afterward: "My father said: This is a rejected ḥadīth." Perhaps this is the basis for al-Azdī's statement about its narrator: "rejected in ḥadīth," as mentioned earlier. There is another route for the ḥadīth, as Ibn Bishrān said in "al-Amālī" (108/1), and from him al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (109/2): Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣawwāf informed us: Bishr ibn Mūsá informed us: Abū Ḥafṣ—meaning: ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās—narrated to us: al-Faḍl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Kūfī narrated to us