is difficult for you, then you may slaughter a jadhʿah from the sheep," because it is narrated by Abū al-Zubayr with an interrupted chain in all the routes, without any explicit statement of transmission, and it is not from the narration of al-Layth ibn Saʿd from him as I clarified in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (65), then in "al-Irwāʾ" (1145), and I confirmed this finally in "Ḍaʿīf Abī Dāwūd" (485). What I want to point out here on this occasion is that some good students from Pakistan in Mecca wrote to me on (3/12/1399) summarizing a discussion that took place between him and one of the traditionalists in Pakistan, revolving around my weakening of this ḥadīth of Jābir regarding the musinnah in "al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah" under ḥadīth (65), where the student argued with the interrupted chain and what I had quoted from scholars and their stance on the mudallisīn. The traditionalist replied to him that it was explicitly stated in the narration with Abū ʿAwānah in "Musnad" (5/228) as he said after he narrated the ḥadīth through the routes from Zuhayr from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir: "Muḥammad ibn Bakr narrated from Ibn Jurayj: Abū al-Zubayr told me that he heard Jābir say... and he mentioned the ḥadīth." I say: I have responded to this suspicion by stating that this chain, in which Abū al-Zubayr explicitly states the transmission, is suspended and disconnected, and no argument can be made with it. I mentioned this in "Ḍaʿīf Abī Dāwūd" (485). Then something else very important occurred to me, which must be highlighted, and that is: this suspended chain - which that traditionalist was deceived by - is not for this ḥadīth that I weakened due to the interrupted chain, but rather it is for another ḥadīth from Jābir, which was previously mentioned as supporting evidence for the ḥadīth of the chapter from the narration of Muḥammad ibn Bakr... with his connected chain from Abū al-Zubayr that he heard Jābir... and here is the clarification: Muslim narrated in "Kitāb al-Aḍāḥī" (6/77) two ḥadīths consecutively from