and Zamaʿah ibn Ṣāliḥ—although he is weak; he is not severely weak, as al-Dhahabī indicated by saying in "al-Kāshif": "Aḥmad weakened him, and he was mentioned alongside another." Rather, he said in "al-Mughnī": "His ḥadīth is acceptable; Aḥmad and Abū Ḥātim weakened him, and Ibn Maʿīn declared him trustworthy." And know, dear reader, that I had extracted this ḥadīth of Jābir more than thirty years ago in the first volume of "al-Ḍaʿīfah" under number (118) from the narration of Ibn Wahb from Zamaʿah from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir in a connected chain, and it also includes the story. When we began reprinting this volume and reached this ḥadīth in correcting its proofs, I remembered that I had extracted in "al-Irwāʾ" something similar, and it was authored about fifteen years after "al-Ḍaʿīfah." I found in it the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym from two paths with two wordings, one with the wording of the title, and the other similar except that it said: ".. with skin or sinew." I leaned towards authenticating its chain and explicitly stated that the chain of the first is authentic. I feared there might be some error in this authentication, so I reviewed it more extensively—as you see—than there, and I confirmed its authenticity and became more convinced of it, and all praise is due to Allāh. Therefore, I felt it necessary to alert the esteemed readers that the ḥadīth—with the supporting ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUkaym—has become authentic due to other evidence, and I have transferred it here. Allāh is the patron of success, and He is the guide to the straightest path. I want to point out two matters here: first, the commentator on "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (2/99) had criticized the ḥadīth for inconsistency, ignoring my response to it in "al-Irwāʾ" (1/79). Then he retracted that in