perhaps due to what we mentioned regarding the verification, scholars continued to report the ḥadīth with this preserved wording (arrogance). Al-Baghawī mentioned it in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" as a commentary (11/118) and al-Mundhirī in "al-Targhīb" (2/188, 3/32, and 4/15) and said: "Some of the ḥadīth scholars recorded it as (al-kanz) with a nūn and zāy, but it is not well-known." It is also found in "al-Mishkāt" (2921), "al-Ziyādah ʿalá al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" (Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ 6287), "al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr," and others.

"There is no iʿtikāf except in the three mosques." It was narrated by al-Ismāʿīlī in "al-Muʿjam" (112/2) from his teacher al-ʿAbbās ibn Aḥmad al-Washshā: Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj narrated to us, and by al-Bayhaqī in "al-Sunan" (4/316) through the route of Muḥammad ibn Ādam al-Marwazī, both from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah from Jāmiʿ ibn Abī Shaddād from Abū Wāʾil who said: Ḥudhayfah said to ʿAbdullāh [meaning Ibn Masʿūd (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu)]: [A group of] people are in seclusion between your house and Abū Mūsá's house, and you do not change it (in another narration: you do not forbid them)?! And you know that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: so he mentioned it?! ʿAbdullāh replied: Perhaps you forgot and they remembered, or you erred and they were correct. I said: This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two shaykhs, and Ibn Masʿūd's statement is not explicitly refuting Ḥudhayfah's narration of the ḥadīth's wording, but perhaps he was refuting his use of it as evidence against the seclusion that Ḥudhayfah objected to, as it is possible that the meaning of the ḥadīth according to Ibn Masʿūd is: no complete iʿtikāf, as in the saying of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "There is no faith for the one who has no trust, and no religion for the one who has no covenant." And Allāh knows best. Then I saw that al-Ṭaḥāwī also narrated the ḥadīth in "al-Mushkil" (4/20) from the mentioned route, and claimed its abrogation!