and know that all these narrations and paths in all the sources we attributed them to have the first of the three traits expressed with the word: "arrogance." Except in the narration of al-Tirmidhī alone from Saʿīd, where it is expressed as "hoarding," and al-Tirmidhī said after it: "Aḥmad said: (arrogance) is a distortion, distorted by Ghundar Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, the ḥadīth of Saʿīd: 'when the soul departs from the body...' and it is actually hoarding." So I say: the narration of Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar is actually from Shuʿbah, and it is the path (4) from Qatādah, so I fear that what is in "al-Tirmidhī" (the ḥadīth of Saʿīd) is altered from (the ḥadīth of Shuʿbah). And the ḥadīth of Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar from Shuʿbah is in "al-Musnad" in the place indicated there, and it is paired with the narration of Aḥmad from Bahz from Shuʿbah, and he said at its end: "Bahz said: (and arrogance)." This statement is what the ḥadīth scholars say when there is a disagreement among some narrators about a word, and this is due to their precision in narration, may Allāh reward them with the best reward. And if what al-Tirmidhī mentioned about Imām Aḥmad that Ibn Jaʿfar distorted this word and said: (arrogance) when it is actually (hoarding) is preserved, then I imagine that Aḥmad's statement at the end of the ḥadīth: "Bahz said: (and arrogance)" contains an error, and the correct version is (and hoarding), because it was Ibn Jaʿfar who said: (and arrogance). If we do not say this, it contradicts what is in "al-Musnad" with what al-Tirmidhī reported from Aḥmad. And Allāh knows best. In conclusion, whether it is this or that, the claim that the word (arrogance) is altered from (hoarding) by Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar is refuted by the other paths from Shuʿbah on one hand, and their agreement with the other paths on the other hand, as they all agree on the first word (arrogance), unless someone says: they are all altered! And this is unimaginable to be issued by a rational person