"this ḥadīth was narrated by Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, and a group from Hishām from Muḥammad, and they stopped it at Abū Hurayrah, and likewise it was narrated by Ayyūb and Ibn ʿAwn, and they stopped it at Abū Hurayrah." Al-Bayhaqī said the same. The narration of Ayyūb, which Abū Dāwūd suspended, was recorded (1324), and through him: al-Bayhaqī from the route of Maʿmar from Ayyūb from Ibn Sīrīn from Abū Hurayrah who said: "If..." in its meaning, he added: "then let him prolong it as much as he wishes." I say: its isnād is authentic. As for the other matter—namely the disagreement over Hishām ibn Ḥassān—it was mentioned by Abū Dāwūd as suspended from the narration of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, and a group from him as stopped. Among the group was Hushaym ibn Bashīr, as Ibn Abī Shaybah said (2/272-273): Hushaym narrated to us, saying: Hishām informed us with it as stopped. Yes; I had previously recorded the ḥadīth as elevated from his saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) in "al-Irwāʾ" (2/202/453) from the narration of three other trustworthy narrators from Hishām with it, and I leaned there towards preferring the elevation over the stopping, applying the principle: the addition of a trustworthy narrator is accepted. Then the stopping became more likely to me for two reasons, which I mentioned for that in "Ḍaʿīf Abī Dāwūd" (number 240). Then a flaw appeared to me in the narration of one of the three mentioned, who is Abū Usāmah—his name is Ḥammād ibn Usāmah—as Muslim and al-Bayhaqī narrated it from the route of Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah: Abū Usāmah narrated to us from Hishām with it as elevated, so the recording of Muslim from this aspect was among the reasons for preferring the elevation there