and the other reason—which is more important than the first—is that in the ḥadīth of Ibn Rāhwayh: "a gold ring," and in the ḥadīth of Aḥmad: "a silver ring," meaning silver, and it is clearly evident to any researcher that this is the more likely preserved narration from Ibn Jurayj due to the corroboration of Rūḥ—who is Ibn ʿUbādah, also a teacher of Aḥmad—of al-Makhzūmī with him. Muslim also recorded this narration (6/152) through the route of Ibn Numayr: Rūḥ narrated it to us. Abū ʿĀṣim corroborated him with Ibn Jurayj with it. And Hishām ibn Sulaymān with Abū al-Shaykh in "Akhlaq" (114). Ibn Jurayj was corroborated by Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd from Ibn Shihāb with it. It was recorded by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd (4221), and Aḥmad (3/160 and 223) and al-Bukhārī mentioned it in a suspended form—as will come—and Ibn Ḥibbān (5466) and Abū Yaʿlá (3538). And Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī from Ibn Shihāb with it. Al-Bukhārī recorded it (5868) and said: "Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Ziyād, and Shuʿayb corroborated him from al-Zuhrī, and Ibn Musāfir said: from al-Zuhrī: I see a silver ring." Shuʿayb's narration was connected by al-Ismāʿīlī as the ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Fatḥ" (10/321) and he missed that Aḥmad also connected it (3/225). Ibn Musāfir's narration—who is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn Musāfir, a trustworthy narrator from the two Shaykhs—was also connected by al-Ismāʿīlī through the route of Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr from al-Layth from him, the ḥāfiẓ said: "And it does not contain the wording: 'I see,' so it seems it is from al-Bukhārī." I said: I find it very unlikely that it is an addition from him, rather it is the narration that occurred in this way for Ibn