"its isnād is weak; Yūnus is Ibn Khabbāb. Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd said: He was a liar..." Then he elaborated on the statements of the imams regarding the weakening of this Yūnus, and he quoted from "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (10/171) that it said: "It was narrated by al-Bazzār, and in it is Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, and he is weak." I say: al-Bazzār was correct, and the aforementioned commentator made a grave error, confusing two narrators. One is reliable, Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, in the isnād of Abū Yaʿlá, and the other is weak, Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, merely because they share the same name and generation, even though their teachers and narrators differ! In such cases, it is necessary to be cautious and investigate their matters thoroughly to identify their personalities; otherwise, one will inevitably fall into error, as happened to the aforementioned commentator. This is because al-Bazzār, may Allāh have mercy on him, presented the ḥadīth with his isnāds from Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, as in "Kashf al-Astār" (4/51), including his statement: Yūsuf ibn Mūsá narrated to us: Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated to us from Layth from Yūnus ibn Khabbāb from Abū ʿAlqamah from Abū Hurayrah with it. From this route, Abū Nuʿaym also narrated it in "Ṣifat al-Jannah" (1/9/68) through another route from Jarīr with it, except that it appeared as: "Abū Ḥāzim ibn Yūnus." I suspect that the phrase "ibn Yūnus" is a mistake by the copyist or printer, as it is correct in "Ḥādī al-Arwāḥ" from the same route. Moreover, the statement of Yūnus ibn Khabbāb: "from Abū Ḥāzim" is not preserved from Yūnus, and it appears to be one of the confusions of Layth, who is Ibn Abī Sulaym. Sometimes he narrated it this way, and other times from Abū ʿAlqamah, as in the narration of al-Bazzār, which is the correct version from Yūnus, because that is how it appears in the routes and isnāds mentioned by al-Bazzār. This is supported by another route with al-Ṭayālisī in "Musnad" where he said (2579): Shuʿbah narrated to us from Yaʿlá ibn ʿAṭāʾ