a narration from him. It is possible that due to the confusion I mentioned, Shaykh al-Jīlānī, in his commentary on "al-Adab," concluded that the correct name of the author's shaykh is "Ibn Numayr." He then said (2/89): "Perhaps the isnād was reversed, and the correct version is: Abū al-Yamān narrated to us from Ibn Numayr, meaning ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr. In the printed version, it was: Abū Numayr narrated to us." I say: This is a strong possibility, as they mentioned that this Ibn Numayr narrated from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid. I found his explicit statement of narrating from Ismāʿīl in "Sunan Ibn Mājah" (no. 817) regarding the ḥadīth of recitation in the Fajr prayer, but he inserted between him and ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth (Aṣbagh, the client of ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth). If this possibility is correct, then the isnād is authentic due to Ismāʿīl's explicit statement of hearing it from ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth. What further confirms this is that I found Ismāʿīl's explicit statement of hearing in this same ḥadīth from another route from him. Abū Yaʿlá said in his "Musnad" (3/41/1456): Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Yaḥyá ibn Yamān narrated to us: Ismāʿīl said: I heard ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth with it. I said: This isnād is acceptable for follow-ups and supporting evidence. Its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs, except for this Yaḥyá, who is truthful but makes many mistakes and had changed, as mentioned in "Taqrīb." As for the commentator's statement on "Musnad Abī Yaʿlá": "Muslim authenticated his ḥadīth in Zuhd, no. 2972." There is an unintentional misrepresentation in it, because Muslim did not rely on him but rather paired him with "ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān," who is al-Kilābī, a reliable and firm narrator. Thus, Muslim's authentication is for ʿAbdah's ḥadīth, not for Yaḥyá's