the two shaykhs used both of them as evidence, for the first was described by the ḥāfiẓ in "Taqrīb" as: "Reliable and authoritative: spoken about without valid criticism." As for the other, he said about him: "Truthful but makes mistakes," and for this reason, al-Dhahabī included him in "al-Mīzān" and "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ," but did not include the first. second, Ibrāhīm has an addition in the isnād and the text, and the addition of a reliable narrator is accepted as is well known. Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir followed him in the account from Abū Bakr ibn Sulaymān, though in a shortened form, but differed in his isnād, saying: "From Ḥafṣah that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) entered upon her, and with her was a woman called Shifāʾ who was treating with ruqyah for a skin ailment, so the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: Teach it to Ḥafṣah." Thus, he made the ḥadīth from the Musnad of Ḥafṣah, not Shifāʾ. It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/286), al-Ṭaḥāwī, al-Ḥākim (4/414), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ṭibb" (2/28/2) from Sufyān from Ibn al-Munkadir. al-Ḥākim said: "Its isnād is authentic." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I say: it is as they said also, and the mentioned disagreement does not harm, if Allāh wills, because it is possible that Ḥafṣah narrated it as Shifāʾ did, for the incident occurred in their presence, and then Abū Bakr ibn Sulaymān narrated it sometimes from this one and sometimes from that one. However, al-Sakhāwī mentioned that there was a disagreement regarding Sufyān in connecting it and sending it