Muṣʿab ibn Saʿīd al-Miṣṣīṣī said: ʿĪsá ibn Yūnus narrated to us from ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī from Thumāmah from Anas who said: the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) passed by the neighborhood of Banū al-Najjār, and there were girls playing the drum, saying: "We are girls from Banū al-Najjār, how delightful is Muḥammad as a neighbor." The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... and he mentioned it. al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from ʿAwf except ʿĪsá, and Muṣʿab ibn Saʿīd was the only one to narrate it." I said: He is truthful, as Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (4/1/309) from his father. Ibn Ḥibbān also deemed him reliable in "al-Thiqāt" (9/175), and said: "He might make mistakes, but his ḥadīth is considered if he narrates from reliable narrators and clarifies hearing, because he was a mudallis." I said: He has explicitly stated hearing, as you see, and those above him are reliable narrators from the two Shaykhs, so the isnād is ḥasan, even though Ibn ʿAdī criticized this al-Miṣṣīṣī, and al-Dhahabī included him in "al-Mīzān," followed by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Lisān," but they missed Abū Ḥātim's statement about him: "Truthful!" Furthermore, he was not the only one to narrate it, contrary to al-Ṭabarānī's statement; Ibn Mājah said (1/612/1899): Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: ʿĪsá ibn Yūnus narrated it, and his wording was: "Allāh knows that I love you." al-Būṣīrī said: "Its isnād is ṣaḥīḥ, and its men are reliable." I said: It can be said that it is ṣaḥīḥ due to other supporting evidence; due to al-Miṣṣīṣī's corroboration of it; given the known disagreement regarding Hishām ibn ʿAmmār; even though he is among al-Bukhārī's shaykhs in "al-Ṣaḥīḥ" and relied upon