I say: The reason for the mentioned doubt is that the ḥadīth was reported by a group of imams through various chains from Abū Maʿshar with it, except that some of them did not mention the stated wording, while others mentioned it with the wording: "he was praying in it." It was reported by Muslim (1/164-165), Ibn al-Jārūd in "al-Muntaqá" (55/136), and others, and this is the preserved version. The difference between this and the first wording is not hidden; for this is explicit that the rubbing was not during the prayer, but rather he was praying after the rubbing. As for the first wording, its apparent meaning is that the rubbing occurred while he (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was praying. Therefore, al-Ḥāfiẓ cited it after the ḥadīth of the chapter as a witness for it, although it can be interpreted that the phrase: "while he was praying in it" is conjoined to her saying: "I saw myself"; meaning: and I saw him praying in it, or similar interpretations, but it is not without difficulty. Then I see another anomaly, but it is in the isnād, which is his statement: "Hishām al-Dastawāʾī," for two reasons: the first is that al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī and others did not mention Hishām al-Dastawāʾī among the teachers of Ḥammād ibn Zayd, but they mentioned Hishām ibn Ḥassān. The second is that Muslim and al-Nasāʾī (1/56) said: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us from Hishām ibn Ḥassān with it. And there is no doubt that this is more authentic than the narration of Ibn Ḥibbān, because his teacher Muḥammad ibn ʿAllān—also said to be: (ibn ʿAlī)—al-Adhanī; although he is unknown to us, and al-Samʿānī, when he mentioned him in this attribution, did not add more than mentioning him by his narration from his teacher Luwayn