I said: If the shaykh (may Allāh have mercy on him) had come across the narration of "al-raḥāl" with the neglected ḥāʾ, it would have helped him resolve the issue and understand the sentence correctly, without any direction or affectation. This narration is the preferred one in my view for the following reasons: First, its authenticity is established in "al-Fawāʾid" and its copy is good. Second, it also appears with the neglected ḥāʾ in a manuscript of the book "al-Targhīb wa-al-Tarhīb" by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī, preserved in the al-Ẓāhirīyah library in Damascus in a large volume that has some missing parts. Even though it is a composite of various copies or scripts, the part containing this ḥadīth is from a well-preserved and meticulously checked copy. What indicates this is that a small ḥāʾ was written under the ḥāʾ of this word like this (al-raḥāl), as was the custom of meticulous scribes in the past for letters that might be ambiguous. Similarly, this was done on the page before the page of this ḥadīth, where the name (Zahr) appeared, and a (ḥ) was written under it like this (Zahr). Third, the earlier narration of al-Ḥākim with the wording: "they ride on al-miyāthir..." confirms what we have preferred, because (al-miyāthir) is the plural of (mītharah) and (mītharah) with a kasrah, as Ibn al-Athīr said: "a form derived from softness, it is said: soft and softness, meaning soft and pliable, made of silk or brocade, placed by the rider under him on the saddles over the camels." So, if you understand this, the narration of al-Ḥākim explains the first narration, and by combining them, the meaning is that the saddles they ride are soft and pliable, and that they (meaning the saddles) are like the semblance of al-raḥāl, meaning in terms of their spaciousness. Accordingly, the phrase "like the semblance of al-raḥāl" is not in the position of an attribute for (men) as it was explained