"it was narrated only by Mughīrah ibn Muslim from Ayyūb, and only by Shabābah from al-Mughīrah, with Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá being the sole narrator." I said: He is obscure and was not recognized by al-Haythamī, who said after the ḥadīth (10/138): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ', and it includes Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ayyūb al-Ḍarīr, whom I do not know, but the rest of the narrators are trustworthy." He said the same about other ḥadīths, including the one that follows, but he missed that he is known to al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, who mentioned him in 'Tārīkh Baghdād' (8/457-458) with narrations from a group of trustworthy memorisers, including Yaḥyá ibn Ṣāʿid and the judge al-Muḥāmlī, and added to them the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah, for al-Ṭabarānī narrated other ḥadīths from Zakariyyā in 'al-Awsaṭ', and these are their numbers (5489, 5490, 5530, 5536). For someone like him, the scholars have acted upon accepting their ḥadīths, even if only as supporting evidence at the very least, if those above and below him are trustworthy, as is the case in this ḥadīth, for all those above him are trustworthy from the men of 'al-Tahdhīb', and the narrator from him is Ibn Abī Khaythamah, one of the well-known trustworthy memorisers, so he is truthful. I had previously extracted this ḥadīth from the narration of Abū Hurayrah earlier (602) with a weak chain, and I strengthened it with another route from Ibn ʿUmar through the narration of al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah from Muḥammad ibn Sūqah from Nāfiʿ. When I came across this corroboration from Mughīrah ibn Muslim from Ayyūb from Nāfiʿ, I hastened to include it here to confirm the authenticity of the ḥadīth. And Allāh is the Patron of success and guidance. Then I saw that Ibn al-Qaṭṭān included the ḥadīth in his book 'al-Naẓar fī Aḥkām al-Naẓar' (folio 72/1) and said: al-Bazzār said: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyá informed us of it. And Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: "Mughīrah ibn Muslim is well-known and there is no harm in him, so it is a good isnād."