"its chain of transmission is authentic." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: It is as they both said or close to it, for there is a slight issue with Saʿīd, but he has been corroborated. Shurayk said: From ʿImrān al-Nakhalī, from a client of Umm Salamah, who said: I was with the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) on a journey, and we came to a valley. He said: I began to help people cross or carry them. He said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to me: "Today you were nothing but a ship, or you are nothing but a ship." It was said to Shurayk: Is he Safīnah, the client of Umm Salamah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā)? This is how it appears in "al-Musnad," but Shurayk's response is not recorded, and it is a confirmatory question. It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/221) and al-Rūyānī (128/1). Shurayk is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qāḍī, and he is considered reliable in supporting narrations. ʿImrān al-Nakhalī was deemed trustworthy by Ibn Ḥibbān (5/223), and his son Ḥammād ibn ʿImrān and Abū Nuʿaym also narrated from him, as mentioned in "al-Jarḥ" (3/1/300), and his father was named ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaysān. I have reservations about mentioning Abū Nuʿaym among those who narrated from him, because al-Bukhārī did not include him in this initially, and then he only mentioned him as narrating from his son Ḥammād secondly. Ibn Abī Ḥātim agreed with him on this thirdly. And Allāh knows best. (Note): (al-Nakhalī) is attributed to (al-Nakhlah), and in "al-Musnad" it appears as: (al-Bajalī), and in "al-Rūyānī": (al-Nakhaʿī), and the correction is from "Tārīkh al-Bukhārī" and "Jarḥ al-Rāzī" and "Ansāb al-Samʿānī." What is in "al-Musnad" seems to be an old error as it also appears in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (9/366) and it was said after his ḥadīth: "Aḥmad narrated it with two chains, and the men of one of them are trustworthy."