he is of unknown status, not authenticated by anyone, and despite being a mursal, it is disconnected between Khālid and Abū al-Dardāʾ. This addition, "and the scholar and the learner are partners in reward..." has been reported as marfūʿ through other chains from Abū al-Dardāʾ and others, but it is weak as I have clarified in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (414). (Note): al-Suyūṭī attributed the ḥadīth in "al-Jāmiʿayn" to Ibn Mājah only from Abū Hurayrah, and "al-Awsaṭ" of al-Ṭabarānī from Ibn Masʿūd. al-Munāwī did not comment on the isnād of Abū Hurayrah, but rather on the isnād of Ibn Masʿūd, and he only added that he quoted from al-Haythamī his previous statement about its narrator Abū al-Muṭarif: "I did not find anyone who mentioned him." This is in "al-Fayḍ," but in "al-Taysīr," he further clarified the ambiguity, saying: "The author indicated its authenticity, but it is not as he said, for it contains an unknown [narrator]!" I said: And it includes the following even though the "al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr" committee approved it (55 - 10703)! First: it gave the impression that the unknown [narrator] is also in the isnād of the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah, which is not the case as previously mentioned. Second: the symbols of al-Suyūṭī in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" have no value, as we have pointed out repeatedly, and I explained it in the introduction to "Ḍaʿīf al-Jāmiʿ" and "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ," and al-Munāwī himself pointed out something of it in the introduction to "al-Fayḍ." Third: it gave the impression that the ḥadīth is weak, which is not the case with regard to the chain of Abū Hurayrah, as it is ḥasan as previously mentioned, and it is further strengthened by the ḥadīth of Jābir! And Allāh knows best