I said: He is Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd ibn Abān al-Umawī al-Baghdādī, and he is trustworthy, from the men of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]. His uncle is ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd, who was deemed trustworthy by al-Dāraqutnī, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," and those above him are trustworthy from the men of the two Shaykhs, except for ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym, who is trustworthy. ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd, who is al-Rāzī the ḥāfiẓ, is a subject of differing opinions, and what can be summarized from their statements about him is that his ḥadīth is good, except when he contradicts [others]. Therefore, al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (2/194): "al-Ṭabarānī narrated it with a good isnād." Al-Haythamī said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (5/292): "al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in 'al-Awsaṭ' through the route of ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd ibn Abān, whom al-Dāraqutnī deemed trustworthy as transmitted by al-Dhahabī, and no one weakened him, and the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the authentic [collections]." Thus he said, and ʿUrwah ibn Ruwaym is not from the narrators of the authentic [collections] as previously mentioned. The ḥadīth has a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of Nuʿaym ibn Hammār, elevated similarly. It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/287), as well as Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr in "his Sunan" (2566), al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr" (4/2/95), al-Bayhaqī in "al-Asmāʾ wa-al-Ṣifāt" (472), Abū Yaʿlá (4/1626), Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Maqdisī in "Faḍl al-Jihād" (folio 115/2), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Jihād" (94/1), and al-Ṭabarānī in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (pp. 234 and 235) through the route of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh from Buḥayr ibn Saʿd from Khālid ibn Maʿdān from Kathīr ibn Murrah from him. I said: And this is a connected, authentic isnād from the Shām region. Al-Mundhirī said (2/193) and was followed by al-Haythamī (5/292):