"The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection are: a man killed by a prophet, or who killed a prophet, a misguided leader, and an actor among the actors." It was recorded by Aḥmad (1/407): ʿAbd al-Ṣamad narrated to us, Abān narrated to us, ʿĀṣim narrated from Abū Wāʾil from ʿAbd Allāh that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I say: This isnād is good, and ʿĀṣim is Ibn Bahdalah Abū al-Nujūd. There is another route narrated by Abū Isḥāq from al-Ḥārith from Ibn Masʿūd with it, and its wording is: "... or a man who misleads people without knowledge, or an image-maker who creates images." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (3/80/2) and only attributed to him by al-Haythamī in "al-Majmaʿ" (1/181) who said: "In it is al-Ḥārith al-Aʿwar, and he is weak." I say: The first route is free from him, and perhaps al-Bazzār recorded it from there, as ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Ishbīlī attributed it to him in "al-Aḥkām al-Kubrā" (no. 142) with the first wording without saying "and an actor among the actors," and he remained silent about it, indicating its authenticity according to him as he stated in the introduction. Al-Mundhirī said (3/136): "And al-Bazzār narrated it with a good isnād." There is a third route narrated by ʿAbbād ibn Kathīr from Layth ibn Abī Sulaym from Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif from Khaythamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, except that he said: "and a tyrannical leader."