and Ayyūb, the ḥāfiẓ said: "weak." Know that there is a difference of opinion regarding the name of this Abū Kathīr, with three views mentioned by the ḥāfiẓ in "al-Tahdhīb." Al-Tirmidhī asserted after the ḥadīth that it is Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghufaylah, and Abū Dāwūd confirmed that this is correct. (Benefit): al-Baghawī said in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (11/353) - having mentioned the ḥadīth in a suspended form: "This does not contradict the ḥadīth of al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr. Its meaning is that most wine is made from them, which is prevalent in the customs of people regarding what they make into intoxicants." I said: And the ḥadīth of al-Nuʿmān to which al-Baghawī referred was previously extracted under number (1593) with the wording: "Indeed, from grapes comes wine..." the ḥadīth; it also mentioned dates, honey, wheat, and barley. Similar is the ḥadīth of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, which added: "and wine is what obscures the mind." It was narrated by the two Shaykhs and others, and it is extracted in "al-Irwāʾ" (8/41-42). The ḥāfiẓ said after it (10/35): "It indicates the weakness of the ḥadīth reported from Abū Hurayrah as marfūʿ... (he mentioned it and said:) or that exclusivity is not intended." I said: And this intended meaning is correct as al-Baghawī confirmed earlier, and it is strange that he points to the weakness of the ḥadīth, while it is a sound and widely transmitted ḥadīth from his follower Abū Kathīr as..