so they came together, and he relieved himself. Then he said, "Go and tell them to separate," and then he went on. When he returned, he passed by the boy who was playing with the other children. His mother had prepared six rams for him, and she gifted him two rams, saying: Nothing of the previous issue has returned to him. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... so he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is weak; Shurayk, who is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nakhaʿī, is not strong due to his poor memory. ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿlá is weak, as stated in "al-Taqrīb." I said: His father, ʿAbd Allāh, is similar; Ibn Ḥibbān said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (2/25): "I do not like to use his report as evidence when he is alone, due to the numerous objectionable things in his narration. Moreover, his son is also weak, so I do not know whether the fault lies with him or his father." Al-ʿUqaylī said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (2/319): "There is a concern about him." Then he mentioned the ḥadīth through the route of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿlá, who said: My father told me ... I said: He narrated the first story in part similarly, and said: "And he mentioned the ḥadīth, and it is narrated through a more reliable route than this." I said: It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/170-173), al-Ṭabarānī number (680), and al-Bayhaqī (6/20-24) through other routes from Yaʿlá; one of them is with al-Ḥākim (2/617-618) from