the man, but rather sufficed with narrating from Ibn Maʿīn as al-Dhahabī did. Although this suggests to us that it indicates his weakness, it is not the same as if he had said "weak" with certainty. What I see is that the man is average or at least concealed, because the criticism against him is not established, and he has not been authenticated by someone whose authentication is reliable. The previous statement by al-Khalīlī supports what I have seen. He did not narrate anything objectionable, and the most that al-ʿUqaylī mentioned about him are two ḥadīths. One of them is this one. The other is his ḥadīth with a sound chain of transmission from Abū Hurayrah, attributed [to the Prophet]: "There is no contagion, no ṣafar, and no hāmah." Al-ʿUqaylī said about it: "Its chain is sound." As for this ḥadīth, al-Balkhī did not narrate it alone; it has come through two other routes: one of them is from Anas. Al-ʿUqaylī himself pointed to it. The other is narrated by ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (fol. 175/1 - Kawākib 575): Maʿmar informed us from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, attributed [to the Prophet]. I said: This is a sound mursal chain. Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah is the son of Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, who narrated from his father from his grandfather ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām. Abū Ḥātim said: There is no harm in him. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt." Al-Qudāʿī narrated it in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (fol. 24/2) through two other routes, from Maʿmar from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, making it from the musnad of his grandfather ʿAbd Allāh. If this is correct, and there is no error in the narration or distortion in the manuscript, it is musnad, but it is disconnected between Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah and his grandfather ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām