that it is not narrated from ʿUmar except through this route, and we do not know anyone who narrated it from Ibn ʿUyaynah except Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, the brother of Abū Maʿmar. I said: Al-Khaṭīb mentioned him in "al-Tārīkh" (1/387) and presented this ḥadīth from the route of al-Ṭabarānī, and narrated from Yaḥyá ibn Maʿīn that he was asked about Abū Maʿmar. He said: "Someone like Abū Maʿmar is not questioned about; he and his brother are among the people of ḥadīth." Then he narrated from the ḥāfiẓ Mūsá ibn Hārūn who said: "Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, the brother of Abū Maʿmar, is truthful and there is no harm in him." I said: And those above him are trustworthy, from the men of the two Shaykhs. And Ibn Masāwir al-Jawharī is among the trustworthy shaykhs of al-Ṭabarānī, according to al-Khaṭīb (4/349) and al-Dhahabī in "al-Siyar" (13/59-60), so the isnād is authentic. Despite the numerous supporting evidences for this ḥadīth and the authentication by a group of imams, the deluded self-admirer known as (Ḥassān ibn ʿAbd al-Manān) proceeded to weaken it through its three routes, which he extracted in his commentary on Ibn al-Qayyim's book: "Ighāthah al-Lahfān" (1/528) from three Companions, and he concealed other supporting evidences like these two strong ones, let alone the statement of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Take suḥūr, for there is blessing in suḥūr." Agreed upon, and it is extracted in "al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr" (49 and 1089). He has many such unjust and erroneous weakenings in his commentary on this book and others, hundreds of authentic ḥadīths that he weakens with astonishing boldness, while scholars have authenticated them! I am now in the process of tracking them in this book and others—if I am able to do so. I have completed the ḥadīths of the first part of it, reaching a hundred, give or take a little. And Allāh is the one whose help is sought.