"it is not narrated from Abū Qurād except with this isnād. ʿUbayd was the only one to narrate it." I said: And he is weak, as stated by al-Haythamī (4/145), and the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taqrīb." It is also narrated from this route in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (Q 47/1 - Majmūʿ 6), and from him by Ibn Mandah in "al-Maʿrifah" (2/259/2). Al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Jaʿfar differed in his isnād, saying: from Abū Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī (who is ʿUmayr ibn Yazīd) from al-Ḥārith ibn Faḍīl from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Qurād that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) performed ablution one day... the ḥadīth. It was narrated by Ibn Mandah (2/21/1) and likewise by Abū Nuʿaym in "Fawāʾid Maymūnah" as in "al-Iṣābah." I said: ʿUbayd ibn Wāqid and al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Jaʿfar differed in their isnād, for the first named the Companion as Abū Qurād, and the narrator from him as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith, while the other [said] from al-Ḥārith ibn Faḍīl from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Qurād, naming him ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Qurād. He is also weak, meaning al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Jaʿfar, and therefore it is not possible to prefer one narration over the other. In summary, the ḥadīth is, in my opinion, at least ḥasan due to the combination of these routes. And Allāh knows best. (Note): It was mentioned by al-Mundhirī in "al-Targhīb" (4/26) from the narration of al-Ṭabarānī from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Qurād al-Sulamī ﵁ who said: We were with the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) ... the ḥadīth. Thus, it appeared in it as "ibn Abī Qurād," and it seems that the word "ibn" was mistakenly used, and the correct word is "ʿan" as previously mentioned. Moreover, it indicates that the ḥadīth, according to him, is ḥasan or close to it as he stated in the introduction.