and the other chain: from al-Haytham ibn Jamīl: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muthanná ibn Anas narrated to us from Thumāmah ibn Anas from Anas with it. It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (1/461), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (1/55/2, no. 976 - my numbering), Ibn Ḥazm in "al-Muḥallá" (8/321), and al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in "al-Mukhtārah" (folio 71/1). I said: This isnād is good; its narrators are those whom al-Bukhārī used as evidence in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" except for al-Haytham ibn Jamīl, who is a trustworthy ḥāfiẓ from the shaykhs of Imām Aḥmad, and he narrated this ḥadīth from him as reported by al-Khallāl from Abū Dāwūd who said: I heard Aḥmad narrate it. As in "Aḥkām al-Mawlūd" by Ibn al-Qayyim (p. 88 - Damascus). It is astonishing that he followed this chain with the first chain and said: "Aḥmad said: It is munkar, and he weakened ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥarrir." Yet he did not address this other chain with weakening! Al-Ṭaḥāwī and Ibn Ḥazm did likewise, so their silence on it can be considered an indication of their acceptance of it, and it is worthy of that since its narrators are trustworthy by consensus except for ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muthanná, who is the son of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Anas ibn Mālik. Although al-Bukhārī used him as evidence, there was much disagreement about him, as you see in "al-Tahdhīb" and elsewhere, and al-Dhahabī mentioned him in "al-Mutakallam Fīhim bimā Lā Yūjib al-Radd" (129/190), so he is moderate. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar noted in "Muqaddimah al-Fatḥ" (p. 416) that al-Bukhārī only used him as evidence in his narration from his uncle Thumāmah, and he only narrated from him from others as corroboration. I said: Perhaps that is due to ʿAbd Allāh's connection to his uncle and his knowledge of his ḥadīth, for he is more knowledgeable about it than the ḥadīth of others. It is as if al-Bukhārī, by this action which al-Ḥāfiẓ pointed out, reconciles the statement of those who deemed him trustworthy and those who weakened him; thus, in his narration from his uncle, he is a ḥujjah, and in his narration from others, he is weak. Perhaps this is the reason al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī included the ḥadīth in "al-Mukhtārah," and why those who remained silent about it from the imāms did so, as I indicated earlier