he said this! And Khuṣayf has weakness due to his memory. The ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Truthful, but poor in memory, he became confused at the end of his life." I said: His narration of this ḥadīth confirms this, as he was inconsistent in his narration. At one time he said: "from Muqassim," and at another: "from ʿIkrimah," as mentioned earlier. Zuhair said: Khuṣayf narrated to us from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr and ʿIkrimah regarding the verse of Allāh: *"And it is not for a prophet to act unfaithfully"* (Āl ʿImrān, 161). They said: (to act unfaithfully) he said: ʿIkrimah or someone else said from Ibn ʿAbbās: and he mentioned something similar. Al-Ṭabarī recorded it. Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj followed him from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said: and he mentioned it in brief. Al-Ṭabarī also recorded it through the route of Qazaʿah ibn Suwayd al-Bāhilī from him. Both Ḥumayd and Qazaʿah are weak. There is another route for the ḥadīth from Ibn ʿAbbās that strengthens the ḥadīth. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in "al-Kabīr" (11174), "al-Awsaṭ" (5446 - my numbering), and "al-Ṣaghīr" (number 441 - al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr) and from his route al-Khaṭīb in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (1/372) said: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yazīd al-Narsī al-Baghdādī narrated to us, he said: Abū ʿUmar Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar al-Dūrī the reciter narrated to us from Abū Muḥammad al-Yazīdī from Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ from Mujāhid from Ibn ʿAbbās: that he used to disapprove of those who recite: *"And it is not for a prophet to act unfaithfully"*, and he would say: How could it not be for him to act unfaithfully when it was for him to kill?! Allāh said: *"And they kill the prophets without right"* (Āl ʿImrān, 112), but the hypocrites accused the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) regarding something from the spoils, so Allāh revealed: *"And it is not for a prophet to act unfaithfully"* (Āl ʿImrān, 161)