that I have reviewed its strong mursal witness in "Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah." He said (6/568/2064): Yaḥyá ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Malik from ʿAṭāʾ who said: It reached us that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: And this is a sound mursal report, all its narrators are trustworthy, the men of Muslim. ʿAbd al-Malik is Ibn Abī Sulaymān al-ʿArzamī, one of the imams, and ʿAṭāʾ is Ibn Abī Rabāḥ, the noble tābiʿī, who frequently narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās, Jābir, Ibn ʿUmar, and others among the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). Thus, it is among the strongest mursal reports used as evidence by all scholars, both muḥaddithīn and jurists, as is elaborated in its appropriate place. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said in "Ibṭāl al-Taḥlīl" (p. 30): "The mursal is valid for support by agreement of the jurists." Therefore, Imām al-Bukhārī referenced the ḥadīth in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" with a decisive expression, saying (4/451): "The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: Muslims are bound by their conditions." Al-Ḥāfiẓ included it in "al-Fatḥ" from some of those mentioned, and likewise Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr decisively attributed it to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in "al-Tamhīd" (7/117) and Ibn al-Qayyim also in "al-Ighāthah" (2/21 and 55). Al-Nawawī deemed the isnād of Abū Hurayrah sound in "al-Majmūʿ" (9/376), and Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd strengthened it in "al-Ilmām" (906 and 907), and al-Shawkānī deemed it good in "Nayl al-Awṭār" (5/216). Knowing this, it is peculiar that all these imams, and the strength the ḥadīth derives from its collective paths—especially the sound mursal among them—were contradicted by the one called (Ḥassān ʿAbd al-Manān) in his commentary on "Ighāthah al-Lahfān" by Ibn al-Qayyim, as he decisively declared it weak, disregarding his opposition to the path of the believers, saying (2/21): "A weak ḥadīth referenced by al-Bukhārī in his 'Ṣaḥīḥ' (4/451)!"