Mutarrif ibn Ṭarīf and al-ʿAwām ibn Ḥawshab, and they remained silent about him, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (5/568). They did not mention among the narrators with Muḥammad ibn Juḥādah this one, but they mentioned among his teachers Abū Ḥāzim al-Ashjaʿī. I fear that he is the narrator of this ḥadīth from Abū Hurayrah, altered by the narrator, or the copyist, or the printer to (Abū Jaʿfar), unless he had two kunyahs, which I find unlikely! What supports the first [possibility] is that a group of trustworthy [narrators] reported it from Shuʿbah with it; except they said: "the slave women" instead of: "the flutes." This casts doubt that this wording: (the flutes) is altered from: (the slave women); but it comes in another path with the wording: "the flute player." It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (2283 and 5348), Abū Dāwūd (3425), Ibn al-Jārūd (587), Ibn Ḥibbān (5136), as well as al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (1/254), al-Bayhaqī (6/126), al-Ṭayālisī (3275), and Aḥmad (2/287, 382, 437-438, 454, 480) from various paths from Shuʿbah with it. Hammām followed him: Muḥammad ibn Juḥādah narrated to us with the wording: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) forbade the earnings of the cupper and the earnings of the slave woman. Aḥmad recorded it (2/347). Its isnād is authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs. Ibn Ḥibbān added in a narration (5137) from the path of Abū Yaʿlá who said: Muḥammad ibn al-Minhāl al-Ḍarīr narrated to us, he said: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, he said: Shuʿbah narrated to us with it, and he added: "out of fear that they might engage in immorality."