to the Prophet Muḥammad (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) himself when it was revealed, so he engaged in the most intense effort he ever made concerning the Hereafter. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) then said: "The conquest has come, the help of Allāh has come, and the people of Yemen have come." A man asked: "O Messenger of Allāh! Who are the people of Yemen?" He said: "They are people with tender hearts, gentle hearts. Faith is Yemeni, wisdom is Yemeni, and understanding is Yemeni." It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (6/525/11712) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (11/328-329), and "al-Awsaṭ" (3/15/2017). Aḥmad narrated the first part of it (1/217) through the route of ʿAṭāʾ from Saʿīd from Ibn ʿAbbās. Al-Haythamī said (7/144) afterward: "Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in a long ḥadīth... In its isnād is Hilāl ibn Khabbāb, Yaḥyá said: trustworthy and reliable, not changed, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, though he has some weakness. The rest of its narrators are the narrators of 'al-Ṣaḥīḥ', and in Aḥmad's isnād is ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who had mixed up." As for the ḥadīth of Hilāl ibn Khabbāb; its isnād is good, and al-Dhahabī said in "al-Kāshif": "Trustworthy." The closest opinion is that of al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taqrīb": "Truthful, but changed in his later years." Therefore, he remained silent about the ḥadīth in "al-Fatḥ" (8/100) and attributed it to al-Bazzār. Thirdly: There is a corroboration for Hilāl ibn Khabbāb from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Bashīr from ʿIkrimah from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: