5 - As for the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, it is narrated by ʿUthmān ibn Hārūn al-Qurashī: ʿIṣām ibn Qudāmah narrated to us from ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī from him, raised [to the Prophet], except that he said: "His sins will be forgiven even if they are as numerous as the sand of ʿĀlij, the foam of the sea, and the stars in the sky." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Duʿāʾ" (1784) and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (14/353/1-2). I said: ʿAṭiyyah al-ʿAwfī is weak. And ʿUthmān ibn Hārūn al-Qurashī, I did not find a biography for him. He was followed by Ashʿath ibn Shuʿbah according to al-Ṭabarānī, and he is lenient. 6 - As for the ḥadīth of Anas, it is narrated by Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh from him, raised [to the Prophet]. It was recorded by Ibn ʿAsākir (14/358/2). I said: And this isnād is extremely weak, Dīnār ibn ʿAbd Allāh is ruined and accused as al-Dhahabī said, and Ibn Ḥibbān said (1/295): "A shaykh, he used to narrate fabricated things from Anas, it is not permissible to mention him in books nor to write what he narrated except for criticism." I said: So it is not permissible to use him as evidence, nor is there any honor in it. 7 - As for the ḥadīth of al-Barāʾ, it is narrated by ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥuṣayn with a weak isnād from him, except that he added: "at the end of every prayer." This is a false addition that was uniquely reported by this Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, and he and his shaykh are both abandoned, and for that reason, I included their ḥadīth in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (4546), so there is no need to re-record it. In general, the ḥadīth from the path of Ibn Masʿūd is authentic, and most of its other paths are weak, and what remains of them, if it does not strengthen it, does not harm it