al-Aḥmar: Thana Shuʿbah from Yazīd ibn Khumayr from Ḥabīb ibn ʿUbayd from ʿAwf ibn Mālik who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... and he mentioned it. I said: al-Haythamī said—and it was omitted from the printed edition (4/119) attributing it to al-Ṭabarānī—"In it is al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Awwal, and he is weak." I said: There is a difference of opinion about him. In "al-Mīzān" and "al-Lisān" it is said: "Abū Zurʿah said: 'I do not narrate from him.' And Abū Ḥātim said: 'People have spoken about him.' Ibn Maʿīn accused him of lying." Abū Zurʿah also said: "He narrated ḥadīths; I do not know what they are." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (8/187). Then the ḥāfiẓ mentioned a rejected ḥadīth from his narration from Abū Muʿāwiyah from ʿUthmān ibn Wāqid from Mūsá ibn Yasār from Abū Hurayrah, raising it: "Indeed, the seven heavens and the seven earths curse the old adulteress and the old adulterer." I said: Attributing the fault of this ḥadīth to al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Awwal is no more justified than attributing it to ʿUthmān ibn Wāqid, for he is also weak; al-Dhahabī said in "al-Mughnī": "He was deemed reliable, but Abū Dāwūd weakened him." Then, assuming that Ḥusayn is the cause [of the weakness], that does not necessitate his overall weakening, for no one is free from error, as is well known to scholars. Perhaps this ḥadīth is the reason Ibn Maʿīn accused him of lying, and this might be due to the strictness for which he is known. I say this because I have seen evidence of this man's reliability—which the ḥāfiẓ did not mention—that made me not..