and the first part of it was narrated by: al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah in "his Musnad" (p. 80/1-2) with the wording: "I saw the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) wiping the face of a horse with his sleeve." He said: "with his sleeve"! This is anomalous, contradicting the narration of the aforementioned reliable narrators, and perhaps for this reason, the ḥāfiẓ included it in "al-Maṭālib" (1931); but it appeared there as: "from his father" instead of "from Jarīr," which is also anomalous, or metaphorical, and this was overlooked by the commentator al-Aʿẓamī, who added—after saying: "from his father"—: "[from his grandfather]," and commented on it by saying: "the addition is mine; because the ḥadīth in 'al-Ittiḥāf' is from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh"! So I say: Yes, the ḥadīth is from Jarīr, but with this addition, you made the ḥadīth from the narration of Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr ibn Jarīr from his father (who is ʿAmr ibn Jarīr) from his grandfather Jarīr, and there is no basis for the narration of Abū Zurʿah from his father ʿAmr in this ḥadīth or in others! Thus should be "the verification of the esteemed researcher Ḥabīb al-Raḥmān al-Aʿẓamī"! Let us now present the isnād of al-Ḥārith ibn Abī Usāmah to confirm the invalidity of that addition, he said: ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us from ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd from Abū Zurʿah ibn ʿAmr ibn Jarīr from his father Jarīr who said ... I said: So you see that "Jarīr" is a substitute for "his father," so the real father ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd is not mentioned in this isnād, so the phrase "his father" in this isnād is either metaphorical as previously mentioned, which is apparent from making "Jarīr" a substitute for it, or it is an error by the narrator; who is the teacher of al-Ḥārith: ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl; who is al-Anṣārī al-Wāqifī; as it is agreed upon his weakness, rather al-Dhahabī said in "al-Kāshif": "weak."