that al-Layth narrated from Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... and he mentioned it. al-Tirmidhī said: "A ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ." I said: Qutaybah was followed by Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam according to al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ al-Sunnah" (5/126/1334), and he said: "A ḥadīth agreed upon for its authenticity, both of them reported it from Qutaybah from al-Layth." He was also followed by others among the trustworthy narrators, and they added those important benefits that you see between the brackets, and here is the explanation: The first: Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb al-Madāʾinī, who is trustworthy and relied upon by al-Bukhārī, Aḥmad said (2/364): Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us—in Mecca—he said: al-Layth ibn Saʿd narrated to us with it; and he added the first and third additions. The second: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim Abū al-Naḍr al-Baghdādī, who is a trustworthy and reliable narrator relied upon by the two Shaykhs, Aḥmad also said (2/306): Hāshim narrated to us: al-Layth narrated to us with it, and he has the first addition. The third: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ Abū Ṣāliḥ, the scribe of al-Layth, who is upright in ḥadīth in what al-Bukhārī and others among the preservers narrated from him, and he narrated from him in "al-Ṣaḥīḥ," he said in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (number 1236): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us: al-Layth narrated to me with it, and he added the first addition. I said: The agreement of these three trustworthy narrators on the first addition instills confidence in its authenticity, even if we assume that Hāshim was alone in it; because he is a trustworthy and reliable narrator as mentioned earlier,