is authentic in his book titled "The Precious Treasure." I have critiqued many of his ḥadīths, demonstrating their weakness and fabrications, some of which are listed in the referenced volume of "al-Ḍaʿīfah" under numbers (5532, 5533, 5534, 5535, 5536, 5537, 5538, 5539), and there are other examples elsewhere. Allāh is the one whose help is sought. I have previously explained to you that the isnād of the ḥadīth is authentic due to its coming through reliable chains from Sabiʿ, and because he is trustworthy, and because Abū ʿAwānah also authenticated it by including it in his "Ṣaḥīḥ," which is "al-Mustakhraj ʿalá Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim," as well as the authentication by al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī. I only rejected the statement of the ḥāfiẓ regarding him: "acceptable" because it means in the case of corroboration, otherwise he is considered weak in ḥadīth according to him, as he explicitly stated in the introduction of "al-Taqrīb." It seems he did not settle on that, for I have seen in "Fatḥ al-Bārī" (13/35-36) that he mentioned sentences from this chain not found in others, indicating that Sabiʿ is not considered weak in ḥadīth by him, because his principle is not to remain silent on a weak [ḥadīth]. Allāh knows best. I said: In this chain, there are other additions and narrations referred to by my statement: "In the chain..." which were not mentioned in the previous chains, distributed among their narrators, and it also includes the three additions. In some chains, there is a rejected narration with the wording: "The Caliph of Allāh on earth," which was previously discussed under the ḥadīth of Ṣakhr ibn Badr from Sabiʿ under number (1791). Fourth: From Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qurṭ from Ḥudhayfah in a summarized form. It was extracted by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (5/18/8033), Ibn Mājah (2/476), and al-Ḥākim (4/432) from Abū ʿĀmir Ṣāliḥ ibn Rustam from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Qurṭ from Ḥudhayfah. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic isnād." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him!