I said: this also does not harm, for a group of trustworthy narrators have related it from him as connected, as we have mentioned, according to al-Ḥākim, and others besides him, so the contradiction of those who disagreed with them is of no consequence. He was also followed by Kurayb ibn Sulaymān al-Kindī who said: "ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhum) took me by the hand and led me to a man from Quraysh, one of Banū Zuhrah, called Ibn Abī Ḥuthmah, who was praying nearby. When Ibn Abī Ḥuthmah finished his prayer, he turned to us, and ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn said to him: 'The ḥadīth you mentioned from your mother regarding the incantation?' He said: 'Yes, my mother told me that she used to recite an incantation during the pre-Islamic period, and when Islam came, she said: I will not recite until I seek permission from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). The Prophet said: Recite as long as there is no shirk with Allāh.'" It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (1414) and al-Ḥākim (4/57) through the route of al-Jarrāḥ ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Kindī from Kurayb with this. Ibn Mandah also suspended it from this perspective. And this Kurayb was mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (3/2/169), but he named his father as Sulaym and did not mention any criticism or endorsement. Then it was narrated by al-Ḥākim and Ibn Mandah in "al-Maʿrifah" (2/332/1) through the route of ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿUthmān ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Ḥuthmah al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī who said: My father told me from my grandfather ʿUthmān ibn Sulaymān from his father from his mother al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh that she used to recite incantations from the pre-Islamic period, and when she migrated to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), she came to him and said: O Messenger of Allāh, I used to recite incantations during the pre-Islamic period, and I have decided to present them to you. He said: Present them, so she presented them to him, and among them was the incantation for the ant, and he said: Recite it and teach it to Ḥafṣah: In the name of Allāh, Ṣalūb, when..