and the commentator followed up by saying: "I say: he mentioned him in 'al-Taqrīb' and said: reliable, from the younger generation of the second (followers), died in the year seventy-nine, and he did hear from his father, but only a little. And he said in the biography of his son al-Qāsim: reliable, devout from the fourth generation. So how can al-Dhahabī's statement of their unreliability be correct? al-Ḥasan al-Nuʿmānī." I say: two matters refute this: first, it is not valid to object to al-Dhahabī with the statement of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar, as it is possible that al-Dhahabī considered it more likely that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān did not hear from his father; for the scholars differ on this, even if what al-Ḥāfiẓ mentioned is more likely. The second is that al-Nuʿmānī did not understand al-Dhahabī's words; for his statement: "and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and those after him are not reliable authorities" does not mean ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, but rather ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq—who is Abū Shaybah al-Wāsiṭī; for he said about him in 'al-Kāshif' and elsewhere: "they weakened him." And the narrator from him: al-Naḍr ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bajalī, he said about him in 'al-Kāshif': "not strong." And similarly, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in 'al-Taqrīb.' And see the commentary of brother Badr on 'al-Daʿwāt.' The ḥadīth is supported by what the Prophet ﷺ taught Fāṭimah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā) to say when she wakes up and when she goes to sleep: "O Ever-Living, O Sustainer! By Your mercy I seek help, rectify all my affairs for me, and do not leave me..