and al-Ashjaʿī—whose name is ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd al-Raḥmān—is trustworthy and reliable, the most established among people in writing about al-Thawrī as mentioned in "Taqrīb." Al-Dhahabī said in "al-Kāshif": "An established leader who wrote thirty thousand [ḥadīths] from al-Thawrī." Based on this, the narration of (Yaʿlá) is more reliable than the narration of Abū Usāmah as is apparent. This preference might be challenged by what Abū ʿUbayd narrated in his book "al-Ṭahūr" from al-Ḥakam ibn Bashīr ibn Sulaymān from Mūsá ibn Abī Mūsá in the wording: "The ablution is three, so whoever increases or decreases..." the ḥadīth. I say: No, even if Ibn al-Mulaqqin remained silent about it in "al-Badr al-Munīr" (3/336), and he should not have, for this al-Ḥakam does not compare to al-Thawrī in trustworthiness and memorization, as no one but Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, and Abū Ḥātim said: "Truthful." Furthermore, he contradicted him in another place as he also contradicted Abū ʿAwānah, making his ablution ﷺ three from his own words, indicating that he did not preserve [the narration], so his narration is also less reliable. Thus, the ḥadīth of the chapter remains preserved without addition, which Ibn al-Qayyim affirmed its authenticity in "Ighāthat al-Lahfān." Moreover, there is another reason for presenting the ḥadīth here, which is to refute the enemy of the sunnah and the one who weakens authentic ḥadīths. I have seen him begin to direct other destructive blows, pretending to comment and verify some books of famous imams, and weakening their ḥadīths upon which they based their research. He previously corrupted the book of al-Nawawī "Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn" as is known, and now he has presented to the people a new edition of the mentioned book "al-Ighāthah," commenting on it with very bad annotations, corrupting much of its valuable research by weakening—through his profound ignorance or deliberate disregard—its authentic ḥadīths, including this ḥadīth, as Ibn al-Qayyim presented it in response