al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, which will be referred to shortly, if Allāh wills. As for the corroboration mentioned, it is in "Musnad Aḥmad," where he said (2/229): "Hushaym narrated to us: al-ʿAwām ibn Ḥawshab narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ form." This isnād appears to be authentic, as all its men are trustworthy according to Muslim, but it has a defect. Aḥmad also said (2/506): "Yazīd narrated to us: al-ʿAwām narrated: ʿAbd al-Qah ibn al-Sāʾib narrated to me from a man from the Anṣār from Abū Hurayrah..." I said: Hushaym and Yazīd—who is Ibn Hārūn—differed, and both are trustworthy and precise from the men of the two Shaykhs. Yazīd added the Anṣārī man between ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib—who is al-Kindī—and Abū Hurayrah, and thus it came in the biography of al-Kindī in "al-Tahdhīb": "He narrated from Abū Hurayrah, or from a man from him." Thus, with uncertainty, and if we remember the principle: (The addition of a trustworthy narrator is accepted), then the preferred narration is that of Yazīd, and Allāh knows best. However, this Anṣārī is a Tābiʿī, so he can be considered a witness and corroborator for the narration of Isḥāq, the freedman of Zāʾidah, mentioned earlier by Muslim and others. Yet, this may be complicated by the fact that a group of trustworthy narrators reported it from Abū Hurayrah without the phrase: "and from Ramaḍān to Ramaḍān," and it is beneficial to extract it; so I say: 1- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaʿqūb, the freedman of al-Ḥuraqah, from Abū Hurayrah with it. It was recorded by Muslim and Abū ʿAwānah (2/22) and al-Tirmidhī (214) - who authenticated it - and Ibn Khuzaymah (1/162/314 and 3/158/1814) and Ibn Ḥibbān (4/65/2409) and al-Baghawī in "Sharḥ."