"and the ḥadīth of Abū Sufyān from Jābir is not authentic because it is a written document, and the narration of al-Aʿmash in that regard is considered weak by them." Therefore, al-Bayhaqī said after the ḥadīth: "This is a ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth according to the criteria of Muslim but not al-Bukhārī, for al-Bukhārī does not use the narration of Abū al-Zubayr (meaning from the narration of Maʿqil mentioned earlier), nor the narration of Abū Sufyān [this one], and perhaps Muslim did not include it in 'al-Ṣaḥīḥ' because Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ narrated it from al-Aʿmash who said: Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh said, then he mentioned it. Then he said: al-Aʿmash said: I think Abū Sufyān mentioned it. So al-Aʿmash was uncertain about the continuity of the ḥadīth, thus the narration of Abū Sufyān became weak. Some scholars interpreted it as referring to a cat when it becomes wild and cannot be delivered, and some claimed that this was at the beginning of Islam when it was considered impure, then when it was deemed pure, its price became permissible, but there is no clear evidence for these two opinions. And Allāh knows best. The third path: Ibn Lahīʿah also narrates it from Khayr ibn Naʿīm from ʿAṭāʾ from Jābir: that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) forbade the price of a dog, and forbade the price of a cat. It was recorded by Aḥmad: Isḥāq ibn ʿĪsá narrated to us, Ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us. I said: Its narrators are trustworthy, the men of Muslim, except for Ibn Lahīʿah, who has poor memory, and is used as supporting evidence. However, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad mentioned from his father in 'al-ʿIlal' that Isḥāq ibn ʿĪsá met Ibn Lahīʿah before his books were burned. Therefore, the isnād is good. He was also followed by Ḥayyawah ibn Sharīḥ: Khayr ibn Naʿīm al-Ḥaḍramī informed us