into two sections: "authentic" and "weak," and he made an astonishing mix in this because it is not his field of knowledge, nor do I say it is his specialty. He placed in the "authentic" what should be in the "weak," and vice versa, and there is another occasion to clarify this. The point here is that he embellished these books with images of pages from the manuscripts of the sunan, as if he was tasked with printing them anew, verified against the manuscripts, while he was only tasked with printing the authentication and weakening that I had done on the sunan! But it is the pretense of having what one does not possess! Then the new editor, named (Ḥassān ʿAbd al-Manān), of the book "Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn," deleted the ḥadīth from its first place—which is more beneficial—and only included it in its other place, and he deleted the phrase: "agreed upon." without any clarification from him whether the deletion was based on his opinion or due to verification he conducted by referring to some manuscripts, which he did not concern himself with, nor did he claim to—praise be to Allāh—as others did. Then it seems he did not notice the mursal or the disconnection in it, otherwise he would have hastened to cling to it to weaken the ḥadīth as he did with others narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, let alone those narrated by others among the authors of the sunan. I have presented many examples of this in the addenda I attached to the second volume of "al-Ṣaḥīḥah" in the new edition. And Allāh is the one whose help is sought. (al-Ruʿāʾ): plural of (Rāʿ). (al-Ḥuṭamah): is the one who is harsh in herding camels in the market, driving them in and out, throwing some over others, and oppressing them, used as an example for a bad governor, as in "al-Nihāyah."

- "O Allāh, there is no ease except what You make easy, and You make the difficult easy if You wish." Narrated by Ibn Ḥibbān in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (2427), Ibn al-Sunnī (351), and al-Ḍiyāʾ