what causes a man to wish for a presence that Allāh has kept hidden from him, not knowing how he would have been if he had witnessed it?! By Allāh, there were people present with the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) whom Allāh cast on their noses into Hellfire, for they neither responded to him nor believed him. Should you not praise Allāh that He brought you forth knowing only your Lord, believing in what your Prophet brought, and that you have been spared the trial through others? By Allāh, Allāh sent the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)... etc. I said: This isnād is authentic, its men are trustworthy, the men of Muslim except for Yaʿmur ibn Bishr, who is al-Marwazī. Al-Khaṭīb said in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (14/357): "One of the senior companions of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, Aḥmad said: I do not see anything wrong with him. ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said: Trustworthy. Abū Rajāʾ Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdawayh said: 'Among the trustworthy and pious people of Marw.' Al-Dāraquṭnī said: Trustworthy, trustworthy." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (9/291). I said: It seems that al-Haythamī missed what we mentioned of the verified reports about this Yaʿmur, as he said in another ḥadīth of his (5/122): "Aḥmad narrated it from his shaykh Yaʿmur ibn Bishr, and it is said: All of Aḥmad's shaykhs are trustworthy"! He was followed by Bishr ibn Muḥammad in al-Bukhārī's "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (87), and Ḥibbān ibn Mūsá in Ibn Ḥibbān (1684 - Mawārid) who both said: ʿAbd Allāh narrated it to us. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr said in "Tafsīr Sūrat al-Furqān" after attributing it to Aḥmad with his isnād: "This isnād is authentic, and they did not include it." (Note): The distinction mentioned in this ḥadīth has a basis in "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī" (no. 7281) from the ḥadīth of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh who said: