I said: This isnād is weak. Al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī were silent about it, and its flaw is this Shahr; for he is weak due to his poor memory. Nevertheless, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Fatḥ" (11/380): "Aḥmad narrated it, and its isnād is acceptable"! Then I found another route for the ḥadīth and a supporting witness, which strengthen the ḥadīth inevitably. As for the other route; al-Ḥākim said (4/510): Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salamah al-ʿAnazī (!) informed me: ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us: Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Rabāḥ said: I heard my father say: I went out for ḥajj, and Sulaymān ibn ʿAnz, the judge of Egypt, said to me: Convey my greetings to Abū Hurayrah, and inform him that I have sought forgiveness this morning for him and his mother. I met him and conveyed the message, and he said: I have also sought forgiveness for him. Then he said: How did you leave Umm Ḥanū? meaning Egypt. I described to him its prosperity and living conditions. He said: Indeed, it will be the first land to be ruined, then Armenia. I asked: Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)? He said: No, but ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) told me: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: "There will be migration after migration, and the best of the people on earth..." the ḥadīth. Al-Ḥākim said: "This ḥadīth is authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him! And I say: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ—who is Abū Ṣāliḥ, the scribe of al-Layth—is not among the narrators of Muslim, and there is criticism regarding his memory. Al-Ḥāfiẓ took a middle stance on him in the "Introduction to al-Fatḥ," where he mentioned the statements of the imams of criticism about him: