al-Haythamī said (10/70): "It was narrated by al-Bazzār, and in it is Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, who is a mudallis, and the rest of its narrators are those of the authentic collections!" This is one of his repeated errors, accusing Layth of tadlīs! The actual issue is his confusion, and this has been pointed out repeatedly. The strange thing in all of this is that Shaykh al-Aʿẓamī agrees with him! Sufyān al-Thawrī disagreed with Layth, as he narrated it from Ibn Masʿūd as a mawqūf report. Ibn Abī Shaybah said in "al-Muṣannaf" (15/102/19225): Wakīʿ narrated to us from Sufyān from Abū Qays from Huzayl who said: ʿAbdullāh said: you are the people most similar in appearance and guidance to the Children of Israel; you will follow their path step by step, just as one feather follows another, and one sandal follows another. ʿAbdullāh said: Indeed, there is magic in eloquence. I say: This is a sound isnād as a mawqūf report, but it holds the status of a marfūʿ report; for it pertains to matters of the unseen that cannot be said based on personal reasoning and opinion. This is supported by the fact that his statement: "Indeed, there is magic in eloquence" has been authentically reported as marfūʿ from a group of Companions, such as Ibn ʿUmar and others, and its documentation has been mentioned previously under numbers (1731 and 2851). Then Ibn Abī Shaybah narrated from Abū al-Bakhtarī who said: Ḥudhayfah said: Nothing will occur among the Children of Israel except that its like will occur among you. A man said: Among us are the people of Lot?! He said: Yes, and what do you think, has it not reached that extent, may your mother be bereaved of you?! Its isnād is ḥasan; except that it is disconnected between Abū al-Bakhtarī—whose name is Saʿīd ibn Fayrūz—and Ḥudhayfah