and Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir critiqued him in his commentary on "al-Musnad" (6/117) saying: "We see that ʿAbd al-Razzāq erred in his statement: 'from Sayyār Abū Ḥamzah,' and that the correct version is 'from Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam,' contrary to what Imām Aḥmad favored here." We have two responses to this critique: First, ʿAbd al-Razzāq was not alone in this, as the ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Tahdhīb": "It was narrated by ʿAbd al-Razzāq and others." It seems to refer to al-Muʿāfá ibn ʿImrān, as it was reported by al-Dūlābī (1/159) through the route of Yaḥyá ibn Makhlad: al-Muʿāfá narrated to us from Sufyān with it, and its wording is: "with a prompt reward, or immediate provision." And Yaḥyá ibn Makhlad was deemed trustworthy by al-Nasāʾī as narrated by al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (14/207-208), but the ḥāfiẓ presented this narration of al-Muʿāfá without attribution with the wording: "Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam," so I do not know if it is the altered one, or if it is the earlier narration of al-Dūlābī? Perhaps the former is more likely, because the ḥāfiẓ followed it with the narration of ʿAbd al-Razzāq. And Allāh knows best. Second, Imām Aḥmad is not alone in favoring that it is Sayyār Abū Ḥamzah, but a group of his peers and others agreed with him, as in "al-Tahdhīb" from Abū Dāwūd who said following the ḥadīth: "It is Sayyār Abū Ḥamzah, but Bashīr used to say: (Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam) and that is a mistake." And al-Dāraquṭnī said: