I said: This is a sound isnād, its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]. Then it was also narrated by Ibn Ḥibbān (3983 and 3986) through two chains from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ from Simāk from ʿIkrimah from Ibn ʿAbbās who said ... and mentioned something similar; except that he said: "My father is an old man who cannot perform ḥajj; should I perform ḥajj on his behalf?" He said: "Yes; perform ḥajj on his behalf." Its men are trustworthy; but Simāk's ḥadīth from ʿIkrimah is inconsistent, so it is only used as supporting evidence, and he was followed in the first chain; except in his statement: "cannot perform ḥajj," and it came through another chain; Muḥammad ibn Kurayb said from his father from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAwf informed me, he said: I said: O Messenger of Allāh! My father reached the time of ḥajj and cannot perform ḥajj ... the ḥadīth. It was narrated by Ibn Mājah (2928), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Āḥād" (4/468/2521), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (4/31/3548 and 3549). And Muḥammad ibn Kurayb is weak. And he has another chain with al-Ṭabarānī (3550) from Ḥuṣayn. And its isnād is also weak. But it has a sound supporting evidence from the ḥadīth of Abū Razīn, see it in "al-Mishkāt" (2528). And the weak ḥadīth is compensated by the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās from his brother al-Faḍl, which is agreed upon, even though it mentions that the questioner was the Khathʿamī woman, the matter is easy in that regard, especially since in some narrations the questioner is a man, and al-Ḥāfiẓ reconciled between them as you see in "al-Fatḥ" (4/68)