"It was narrated by al-Bazzār and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ", and the men of al-Ṭabarānī are the men of "al-Ṣaḥīḥ", except for al-Haytham ibn Jamīl, who is trustworthy, and al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh, Aḥmad ibn Masʿūd al-Khayyāṭ al-Maqdisī, is not in the [book] "al-Mīzān". I said: this indicates his reliability, and he was followed by a group of trustworthy [narrators] including Imām Aḥmad as mentioned earlier. The ḥadīth was strengthened by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ishbīlī in "al-Aḥkām", and some of the Salaf acted upon it. Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated in "al-Muṣannaf" (8/235-236) from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn who said: "If I knew that ʿaqīqah was not done for me, I would perform ʿaqīqah for myself." Its isnād is ṣaḥīḥ if the narrator Ashʿath who narrated it from Ibn Sīrīn is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥadānī or Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Ḥamrānī, both of whom are trustworthy Basrans. However, if it is Ibn Sawār al-Kūfī, he is weak, and all three narrated from Ibn Sīrīn, and from them Ḥafṣ - who is Ibn Ghiyāth - is the narrator of this athar from Ashʿath! Ibn Ḥazm mentioned in "al-Muḥallá" (8/322) from the path of al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣubayḥ from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī: "If ʿaqīqah was not done for you, then perform ʿaqīqah for yourself even if you are a man." This isnād is ḥasan.

- "Whoever says: I seek forgiveness from Allāh ... there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer, and I repent to Him three times, his sins will be forgiven even if he fled from the battlefield." This came from the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, Zayd the freed slave of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and Abū