"the isnād is authentic." al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and al-Ḥāfiẓ affirmed it in several places in "al-Fatḥ" (7/127 and 8/725) and said (11/257): "Its isnād is good." I say: the original ruling on this isnād is only ḥasan due to the well-known disagreement regarding ʿĀṣim—who is Ibn Abī al-Najūd—in ḥadīth, but since he was truthful in himself, trustworthy, and an imam in recitation, and he recited to his teacher in this ḥadīth—Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh—and the ḥadīth was about recitation, it thus pertains to his specialization. Therefore, the soul is more at ease with his preservation of it well compared to his preservation of other ḥadīths not related to recitation, and this is very evident. Hence, al-Ḍiyāʾ included it in "al-Mukhtārah" (3/368-369). As for the ḥadīth of the translation, there is another route for it with al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (1/170/542) with a weak isnād from al-Shaʿbī from Ibn ʿAbbās from the Prophet, elevated, with the wording: "If a person had two valleys of wealth..." However, it has an authentic isnād from Ibn ʿAbbās, narrated by the two Shaykhs and others, and it is included in "Aḥādīth al-Mushkilah" (18/14) and will come with another narration in the following number. And the passage of recitation upon him﵁ has another route, narrated by ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abzā from his father from the Prophet, elevated, with the wording: "Indeed, Allāh, the Exalted, commanded me to present the Qurʾān to you." He said: "And did my Lord﵎ name me for you?" He said: *"By the grace of Allāh and His mercy, in that let them rejoice."* Thus, Ubayy recited it, and in another narration, he added: "So I said to him: 'O Abū al-Mundhir! Did you rejoice at that?' He said: 'And what prevents me? By Allāh﵎, He says: *Say: In the bounty of Allāh and in His mercy—in that let them rejoice; it is better than what they accumulate.*"