and perhaps the correct version is the latter: affirming "lā" due to the agreement of the mentioned sources on it, except for "al-Durr," from which it may have been omitted by the scribe or printer, and affirming "trees" instead of "earth." As for the narration of "al-Muṣannaf": "and the earth does not grow," it is anomalous because it contradicts the long ḥadīth of al-Nawwās: "He commands the sky to rain, and the earth to grow..." It was narrated by Muslim and others, and part of it has been previously referenced (1/869 and 4/383), and it is complete in "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ" (4042). A similar narration is found in the long ḥadīth of Abū Umāmah with Ibn Mājah and others, and its reference was previously given as (2457), and it is in "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ," numbered (7752), with parts omitted for which I found no corroboration. Then I compiled it in a separate treatise titled "The Story of the False Messiah and the Descent of ʿĪsá (ʿalayhi al-salām) and His Killing of Him at the End of Times," and I included what was authentically reported from other Companions. As for the narration: "and the trees do not grow," it does not contradict the narration "and the earth grows," because it is more specific, meaning what the earth grows of grass, not trees, and this meaning is almost explicit in the complete ḥadīth of al-Nawwās: "Their livestock will return to them the longest they have ever been in height, the fullest in udders, and the most filled in sides..." 4- Page 1113, under ḥadīth (2957): It was extracted by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" (134 and 135/al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr) with two isnāds, one of which is weak, and it is referenced in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (5765) due to an addition in its text, and the other—this is its text—and its narrators are trustworthy men of al-Bukhārī, except for al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh (Kūshādh ibn Shahardān), for whom I found no biography, and Abū Nuʿaym mentioned him in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (2/167) for narrating this ḥadīth from his shaykh al-Ṭabarānī, and mentioned nothing else about him, so he is among the unknowns, and this isnād was missed by the ḥāfiẓ al-Haythamī, as he only mentioned it in "al-Majmaʿ" with the first isnād!