when I commented on the ḥadīth in the footnote of "al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib" (p. 73), and that was when I was far from my country and my books, so I claimed there that Hilāl was not mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" and others! It was a slip on my part, by which Allāh tests whom He wills among His servants. Some of the resentful and envious, who seek out the mistakes of the believers, exploited it, and they made a big fuss about it, especially Shaykh Ḥabīb al-Raḥmān al-Aʿẓamī and Shaykh Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī. The latter wrote a comment about it on "al-Wābil al-Ṣayyib" spanning about two pages (236-237) in small print, from which the reader gains nothing related to the ḥadīth in terms of authentication or weakening, except for quoting from some biographical books, which even a beginner in this science can do! Along with some misconceptions that there is no room to clarify now, because the intention is that this slip prompted me anew to study this Hilāl, and whether he is Abū Ṭuʿmah or someone else. So I returned to the old sources that are the mainstay of later scholars in biographies, like al-Bukhārī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim, and others. I found that this [source] mentioned (Abū Ṭuʿmah) in "al-Kunā" from "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" and said (4/2/398): ".. the reciter of the people of Egypt, he heard from Ibn ʿUmar, narrated by the sons of Yazīd ibn Jābir, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĪsá, and Ibn Lahīʿah." This text suggests that he differentiates between Abū Ṭuʿmah and Hilāl, and that is for several reasons: First, he gave a brief biography of Hilāl in "al-Asmāʾ" in the same volume (p. 77) saying: "He narrated from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, narrated by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz."