Ismāʿīl is unanimously considered trustworthy, especially in his narration from al-Jurayrī; he was accused of some confusion, but Ismāʿīl narrated from him before the confusion, so his narration is certainly the stronger one. This is not contradicted by the narration of Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/185) through the chain of al-Ṣalt ibn Dīnār from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaqīq from Abū Ṣakhr al-ʿAqīlī who said: I went out to Madīnah... the ḥadīth. I said: This does not oppose the preference; because al-Ṣalt is very weak, abandoned. Moreover, al-Haythamī did not recognize Abū Ṣakhr al-ʿAqīlī, saying after the ḥadīth (8/234): "It was narrated by Aḥmad; and I do not know Abū Ṣakhr, but the rest of the men are those of the authentic [collections]!" This is strange from him; for he is one of the most knowledgeable people about the book "Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān" due to his frequent reliance on it, his quoting from it first, and because he arranged it alphabetically second, and he merged the names of the Companions with the names of others, as he did in "al-Kuná," and he mentioned in it (Abū Ṣakhr), indicating his companionship by writing the number (1) at the beginning of the kunyah (3/166/2- the image). As for the supporting evidence; it is narrated by Ḥammād ibn Salamah from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib from Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd from his father Ibn Masʿūd who said: Indeed, Allāh ﷿ sent His Prophet ﷺ to bring a man into Paradise; he entered the church, and there were Jews, and a Jewish man was reading the Torah to them. When they reached the description of the Prophet ﷺ, they stopped, and in a corner was a sick man. The Prophet ﷺ said: "Why did you stop?" The sick man said: They reached the description of a prophet, so they stopped! Then the sick man came crawling until..