"inform her that she will not enter it as an old woman, for Allāh, the Exalted, says: * (Indeed, We have produced them in a [new] creation. And made them virgins, devoted [and] of equal age) *." I said: This is a weak, mursal isnād. Al-Ḥasan is al-Baṣrī, and al-Mubārak ibn Faḍālah is trustworthy, but he is a mudallis and has narrated it with ʿanʿanah. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī criticized it for being mursal in "Takhrīj al-Iḥyāʾ" (3/129), but he followed it by saying: "Ibn al-Jawzī reported it in 'al-Wafāʾ' from the ḥadīth of Anas with a weak isnād." And I say: It is in the printed version of "al-Wafāʾ" (2/445 - edited by Muṣṭafá ʿAbd al-Wāḥid) without isnād, and in its introduction, the author says: "I do not include isnāds fearing that the listener may become bored," and thus the editor said in his introduction (page ṣ): "Ibn al-Jawzī preferred to omit the isnāds from his reports in the interest of brevity." I said: I wish he had not done so, because the value of the book lies in its isnāds, as is well known to true researchers. However, I am in great doubt that Ibn al-Jawzī was the one who omitted the isnāds, due to the takhrīj of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī mentioned, but Ibn al-Jawzī's statement in his introduction suggests that it was his doing. If this is correct, then he has two books with the mentioned name, one with isnād, which al-ʿIrāqī referred to, and the other this abridged version. And Allāh knows best. I wished he would provide us from his memory with something to support this mursal isnād, to strengthen its text in addition to the ḥadīth of Anas, whose isnād is weak, and we do not know the degree of its weakness, to determine whether it is suitable for corroboration or not. And I have come across a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of