he said so! However, there is a consideration; because it is with Aḥmad and others through another route as will be mentioned. ʿAmr ibn Thābit: he is the son of Hurmaz al-Kūfī, and Thābit is also known as Abū al-Miqdām. ʿAmr is weak, and his father Thābit ibn Hurmaz is reliable but makes mistakes. Abū Fākhtah's name is Saʿīd ibn ʿIlāqah, and he is trustworthy. I said: And he was followed by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Azraq—who is Ibn Bishr ibn Masʿūd al-Anṣārī Abū Bishr al-Madanī, a trustworthy narrator from the men of Muslim—Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ narrated from Abū al-Miqdām from him from ʿAlī who said: ... and he mentioned something similar, including that he milked a sheep, and it yielded milk. It was recorded by Aḥmad in "al-Musnad" (1/101) and in "al-Faḍāʾil" (2/692/1183), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Sunnah" (2/598/1322), and also by Ibn ʿAsākir. I said: And Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ is "reliable but has poor memory. Abū al-Miqdām: he is Thābit ibn Hurmaz, and he is reliable but makes mistakes as mentioned earlier, so the isnād is used as supporting evidence. And al-Haythamī said in "al-Majmaʿ" (9/170): "It was narrated by Aḥmad, al-Bazzār, al-Ṭabarānī, and Abū Yaʿlá in abridged form, and in Aḥmad's isnād is Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, who is disputed, and the rest of Aḥmad's men are trustworthy." I said: And some differed regarding its isnād, as al-Ṭabarānī said in "his Muʿjam" (22/405/1016): Muḥammad ibn Ḥubbān al-Māzinī narrated to us: Kathīr ibn Yaḥyá narrated to us: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Sulaṭ and Abū ʿAwānah narrated from Dāwūd ibn Abī ʿAwf Abū al-Jaḥḥāf from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ziyād that he heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Nawfal say: Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī narrated to us: