"its isnād is authentic; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd ibn Jubayr is trustworthy; he has been narrated by..." he spoke about this trustworthy individual, and it would have sufficed to simply indicate that, but he refrained from discussing al-Layth ibn Abī Sulaym. Allāh has affairs in His creation. The second part of the ḥadīth has been reported by a group of Companions with similar wording in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs" and other collections. As for his saying: "I will precede you to the basin," it is mutawātir from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and much of it has been recorded by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim at the beginning of the second part of "Kitāb al-Sunnah," so whoever wishes may refer to it. (Note): From what has been previously mentioned, you know the variation in the wording of the ḥadīth among its narrators: Aḥmad, al-Bazzār, and al-Ṭabarānī in his two "Muʿjams," and the difference between one of the two paths of "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" and the other path among them. Among the poor commentary and extraction of this ḥadīth is what Shaykh al-Aʿẓamī did in his commentary on "Kashf al-Astār"; he did not clarify the differences between their narrations and the variations in length and brevity, leading to the misconception that the wording with Aḥmad is the same as that with al-Bazzār; he also implied that there is no other path except through al-Layth, while the reality is contrary to that as previously explained.

- (al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿīṭ was sent to Banū al-Muṣṭaliq to collect alms from them, and when the news reached them, they rejoiced and went out to meet the messenger of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and when al-Walīd was informed that they had gone out to meet him, he returned to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: O Messenger of Allāh! Banū al-Muṣṭaliq have withheld the alms