that they are disconnected and that ʿAbdullāh did not hear anything from his father! He supported this claim—according to him—by quoting Aḥmad: "I do not know whether he heard from his father or not," and by a statement he attributed to al-Bukhārī in "Tārīkh" (3/1/51) which is not explicitly denying the hearing (1). Therefore, we did not see any of the later ḥadīth scholars, like al-Dhahabī in "Siyar" (5/50), consider this denial, who said: "The ḥāfiẓ, the imām... narrated from his father extensively..." In "al-Kāshif," it was affirmed that he narrated from his father and others, and said: "Trustworthy." The ḥāfiẓ also said the same in "al-Taqrīb." When the ḥāfiẓ al-ʿAlāʾī mentioned him in his book "al-Marāsīl" (252/338), he only added: "From ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu). Abū Zurʿah said: Mursal." It has become certain to me that this man is among those with biases in weakening authentic ḥadīths, contrary to the specialized scholars in this field. This is if he is aware that what he relied upon to deny the hearing does not suffice to establish the disconnection he claimed, along with the stance of the aforementioned ḥadīth scholars, and other facts that support them. Otherwise, he is an ignorant pretender! And now, here are the facts that I have available: First: that the leader of the muḥaddithīn, al-Bukhārī, to whom the pretender attributed the denial of hearing