the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)," so I do not know if this was omitted by some copyists, or if the narration occurred to him in this way. In any case, the ḥadīth is certainly elevated due to the sources that elevated it, and because it is considered elevated, as it pertains to matters of the unseen that are not subject to personal opinion. The isnād is authentic because its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for this Mundhir, whom Ibn Maʿīn declared trustworthy as you have seen, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him among the followers of the followers in his "Thiqāt" (7/481). Imām Aḥmad also declared him trustworthy, and this is one of the rare findings I came across—by His grace—in some manuscripts preserved in the al-Ẓāhiriyyah Library in Damascus, Syria, may Allāh protect it. Ibn Qudāmah mentioned the ḥadīth in "al-Muntakhab" (10/194/2) through the route of Ḥanbal: Abū ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us... etc. Abū ʿAbd Allāh said: "Mundhir ibn al-Nuʿmān is a trustworthy Ṣanʿānī, and there is no musnad in his ḥadīth other than this." This is a precious benefit, so hold on to it firmly. Moreover, ʿAbd al-Razzāq was not alone in narrating it, as Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān also followed him in narrating it from Mundhir. Abū Yaʿlá recorded it in "al-Musnad" (2/636) and al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Jawharī in "Fawāʾid Muntaqāh" (Q 28/2), and Abū Yaʿlá added: "Muʿtamir said: I think he said: in al-Aʿmāq." Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Atash al-Ṣanʿānī also followed him: Mundhir ibn al-Afṭas narrated to us. Ibn ʿAdī recorded it in "al-Kāmil" (6/2184), saying: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād narrated to us, ʿAlī ibn Baḥr al-Barī narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Atash al-Ṣanʿānī narrated it. Through the route of Ibn ʿAdī, Ibn al-Jawzī included it in "al-Aḥādīth al-Wāhiyah," and he relied on what was not suitable for it, saying (1/306-307):