al-Dārimī (2/313) without what precedes his statement: "Where is so-and-so...," if it is preserved, it is another story. However, I am doubtful of its authenticity in this ḥadīth for two reasons: first, it does not appear in the ḥadīth of the people of Badr according to those Companions we mentioned, except in the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah according to those we mentioned, and in it is ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Nujūd, whose memory is criticized. Al-Dhahabī and al-ʿAsqalānī said: "Trustworthy but makes mistakes." Someone like him is considered reliable in ḥadīth if he does not contradict, but in the case of contradiction—as here—he is not. The second reason is that the story of the blind man, whose name is ʿItbān, has been narrated in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs" and others from ʿItbān himself, and it includes the Companions criticizing the man, without the ḥadīth of the Badr participants. Budayl said: "Does he not testify that there is no deity but Allāh and that I am the Messenger of Allāh?..." the ḥadīth. See "Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim" (1/45-46). ʿĀṣim also made another contradiction, which is his statement: "Indeed, Allāh looked..." whereas others among the trustworthy who narrated the ḥadīth from the group of Companions referred to said: "Perhaps Allāh looked..." as conjecture, as mentioned by al-Ḥākim. However, this contradiction is minor for two reasons as well: first, ʿĀṣim did not persist in it, rather he agreed with the trustworthy narrators in their wording in some of the chains from him as mentioned earlier, so there is no doubt that this is more correct. The second reason is that he narrated it by meaning, and this is from him, as the ḥāfiẓ mentioned in "al-Fatḥ" (7/305 - al-Salafiyyah) from the scholars: that conjecture in the words of Allāh and His Messenger is for occurrence.