and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (2/149/7299 according to my numbering): narrated to us Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm: narrated to us Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsá al-Miṣrī with it. He said: "It was not narrated from Kaʿb except by Mūsá ibn Wardān, and Ḍimām was unique in transmitting it." I said: He is truthful but may err, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb," and al-Dhahabī said in "al-Mīzān": "His ḥadīth is sound, but some criticized him without evidence." I said: The rest of the narrators are trustworthy from the men of the two Shaykhs; except for Mūsá ibn Wardān, who is truthful as in "al-Kāshif" and "al-Taqrīb," and it was added: "He may err." I say: He is paired with Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, the trustworthy, as you see, and this does not negate al-Ṭabarānī’s statement: "It was not narrated from Kaʿb except by Mūsá" because he means: connectedly, and Allāh knows best; because Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb was born around the year 48, and Kaʿb died after fifty, so it appears he did not meet him, as if al-Ṭabarānī, may Allāh have mercy on him, indicated that it is disconnected from the path of Yazīd; and connected from the path of Mūsá, and they mentioned a narration for him from Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah, and they informed in the biography of Mūsá that he died in the year one hundred and seventeen, at seventy-four years old; so he met Kaʿb, and Allāh knows best, - therefore; the isnād is good - if Allāh wills - and perhaps for this reason al-Ḥāfiẓ was silent about it in "al-Iṣābah" and attributed it to al-Ṭabarānī alone in "al-Awsaṭ," and his teacher al-Haythamī said in "al-Majmaʿ" (10/314): ".. and its isnād is good." al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (4/110): ".. and its isnād does not come to mind now, except that our teacher al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan, may Allāh have mercy on him -