"choose whichever you wish." He said, "I choose the right hand of my Lord, and both hands of my Lord are blessed right hands..." It is cited in "al-Ẓilāl" (91/206). There is supporting evidence for it from the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, reported as his own statement. It was recorded by al-Ājurī (p. 322) with a good chain of transmission. There are other ḥadīths about the two groups which I have cited in the first volume, numbers (46-50). None of them mention the left, except in a narration from a ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar regarding the folding of the heavens and the earth, mentioned in "Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ" as narrated by Muslim and Abū Dāwūd from him. ʿUmar ibn Ḥamzah is the only one who mentioned it from Sālim from him. Al-Bayhaqī said in "al-Asmāʾ" (p. 324): "This ḥadīth was narrated by Nāfiʿ and ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muqassim from Ibn ʿUmar, and they did not mention 'the left.' It was narrated by Abū Hurayrah and others from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and none of them mentioned the left. The mention of the left was narrated in another ḥadīth unrelated to this story; however, it is extremely weak. One was uniquely narrated by Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr, and the other by Yazīd al-Raqāshī, both of whom are abandoned narrators. How can this be authentic when the correct narration from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) is that he called both his hands right?" I said: The meaning of al-Bayhaqī's words regarding the mention of "the left" in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar referred to is that it is anomalous due to contradicting the reliable narrators who did not mention that; neither in the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar nor in the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah and others. This judgment of anomaly is technically correct only if ʿUmar ibn Ḥamzah were considered reliable by scholars, but in reality, he is weak, as stated by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar and others, and Imām Aḥmad described him by saying: "His ḥadīths are objectionable."