he said: Abū Jahl said: "If I see the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) praying at the Kaʿbah, I will come to him and step on his neck!" he said: "If he had done so, the angels would have seized him visibly, and if the Jews had wished for death, they would have died and seen their places in the Fire." and if those who challenge the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) had gone forth, they would have returned not finding any wealth or family." and Furāt: he is Ibn Salmān, and he is trustworthy. and the narrator from him, Ismāʿīl ibn Yazīd al-Raqī; I did not know him, and the ḥāfiẓ claimed in "al-Taʿjīl" that he is (Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid al-Raqī) who is in "al-Tahdhīb"! Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir—may Allāh have mercy on him—mistakenly corrected him in this for reasons he mentioned, which are strong, and concluded that he is someone else, and said: "Aḥmad carefully selects his teachers, so he only narrates from a trustworthy one, and thus we authenticated his ḥadīth." Thus he said. And Allāh knows best. Yes; his ḥadīth is authentic; for I found a strong corroborator for him, as Abū Yaʿlá said in "Musnad" (4/471/2604): Zuhayr narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us: ʿUbayd Allāh narrated to us in full like the narration of (Furāt). and this isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two shaykhs. and he was followed by Maʿmar from ʿUbayd Allāh with it in a very abbreviated form; he only has the statement: "If he had done so, the angels would have seized him visibly." ʿAbd al-Razzāq produced it in "Tafsīr" (1/52 and 2/334) and through his route al-Bukhārī (4958)