then he included after it—with a biography—and said: "Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Abū Nuhayk, originally from Kūfah, resided in Marw, heard from Abū Zayd ʿAmr ibn Akhṭab, and was narrated from by al-Ḥusayn ibn Wāqid. We mentioned him in the generation of the Followers of the Followers because people do not know of his hearing from Abū Zayd." As for al-Qāsim, whom he indicated he mentioned in the generation of the Followers of the Followers, I did not see him among them, so I do not know if he forgot him, or if it was omitted by the copyist or the printer. I said: It appears that al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, known as Abū ʿĀmir, is different from the one known as Abū Nuhayk, and that there are two with this nickname (Abū Nuhayk); one of them is a Follower, who narrated from Abū Zayd. The other is a Follower of the Followers, who is al-Asadī al-Ḍabbī, mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" with the narration of Qurrāh ibn Khālid and Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir. He said in "al-Tahdhīb": "Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him among the trustworthy." Perhaps he is the one omitted as mentioned earlier; for I find it unlikely that he intended the one I mentioned first—who narrates from Anas—because if he intended him, the ḥāfiẓ would have mentioned his narration from Anas, and would not have mentioned him in "Kunā al-Taqrīb" from the sixth generation! And Allāh knows best, so the matter requires further research and investigation. As for the other aspect, it is the statement of al-Haythamī: "... they considered him trustworthy." In it is an indication—as I have understood from him through investigation—that one of his narrators has questionable reliability; it is only Abū Ḥabībah al-Ṭāʾī, for none but Ibn Ḥibbān considered him trustworthy (5/577), and he is not known