I said: I do not know who doubted this! All of them are well-known trustworthy narrators, and the isnād is connected! I say: It seems to me that he means al-Bazzār's shaykh Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ, or his shaykh's shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab, or both together; for those above them are from the men of "al-Tahdhīb," so it is very unlikely that the condition of any of them would be unknown to him. Nevertheless, I am surprised that their condition was unknown to him! For he is among those who arranged the book "al-Thiqāt" by Ibn Ḥibbān alphabetically, and they are in his "arrangement": the first of them in the first volume, and the second in the third volume, so it is expected that he would be aware of them, or at least refer to his "arrangement"! Glory be to Allāh! (My Lord neither errs nor forgets) (Ṭā Hā, 52) As for Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ; he is Abū Isḥāq al-Nīsābūrī, mentioned by Ibn Ḥibbān in the fourth level of "al-Thiqāt" (8/83), and he said: "The Baghdadis narrated from him; he was among the brothers of Aḥmad who would sit with him for ḥadīth and religion." He has a good biography in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (2/204-206), and his reliability was narrated from Aḥmad and al-Dāraqutnī. He died in the year 265. As for his shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab; he is Abū Jaʿfar al-Ḥārithī, and he is also Baghdadi. Ibn Ḥibbān also mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (9/83) with the narration of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Baghawī from him, then he said: "He might err." Al-Khaṭīb also translated him (2/390-392) with the narration of another group of ḥuffāẓ from him, and his reliability was narrated from Ṣāliḥ Jazrah. He died in the year 229, and al-Bazzār also declared him reliable. The ḥadīth has other chains; it was narrated by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāh from ʿAṭāʾ from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: