let him extend his whiteness." This is agreed upon by the two Shaykhs, but the phrase "so whoever among you can..." is inserted from the words of Abū Hurayrah and not from his ḥadīth (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) as testified by a group of scholars such as al-Mundhirī, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, al-ʿAsqalānī, and others. I have explained this thoroughly in "al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah," which suffices from repetition. If this sentence were authentic, it would be a text on the recommendation of extending the whiteness and brightness, not on extending the arm. Allāh is the Grantor of success.

- "Whoever seeks refuge with Allāh, grant him refuge; and whoever asks you by the face of Allāh, give him." It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (2/622 - al-Ḥalabiyyah), Aḥmad (no. 2248), and al-Khaṭīb in "Tārīkh" (4/258) through various chains from Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, who reported from Saʿīd (ibn Abī ʿArūbah) from Qatādah from Abū Nuhayk from Ibn ʿAbbās as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This chain is good, if Allāh wills. All its men are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs, except for Abū Nuhayk, whose name is ʿUthmān ibn Nuhayk, as confirmed by the ḥāfiẓ following Ibn Abī Ḥātim in "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (3/1/171), and he mentioned that a group of trustworthy narrators reported from him, without mentioning any criticism or endorsement, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt." Ibn al-Qaṭṭān said: He is unknown. The ḥāfiẓ contradicted himself regarding him, for in "al-Asmāʾ" he said: "acceptable," and in "al-Kuná" he said: "trustworthy." It appears that he is of moderate reliability in ḥadīth, as he is a tābiʿī and a group narrated from him, so he is judged among the hidden tābiʿīn whose ḥadīth is accepted unless their error is evident, and this ḥadīth is from