and the mention of this al-Layth has been omitted from the isnād, so I retrieved it from al-Ṭabarānī's commentary on the ḥadīth, and for this reason, I placed it in brackets, indicating its omission from the isnād. It is likely an old omission that led al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī to say in the extraction of the ḥadīth (3/201): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ', and its narrators are trustworthy." Al-Haythamī followed him and said (4/299): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and its narrators are trustworthy!" His unrestricted attribution to al-Ṭabarānī gives the impression that it is in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr", but I did not find it there. This al-Layth is weak due to his confusion. As for al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh, Muwarraʿ ibn ʿAbd Allāh—who is Abū Dhuhl al-Muṣīṣī—I did not find a biography for him, and it seems he is not among his well-known shaykhs; for al-Ṭabarānī only narrated seven ḥadīths from him in "al-Awsaṭ", this being one of them, and he did not narrate anything from him in "al-Ṣaghīr", nor in his book "al-Duʿāʾ". What supports the oddity of the ḥadīth, and that it is from the narration of al-Layth and his confusions, is that it was narrated by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in "al-Muṣannaf" (11/443/20958) - from Maʿmar-, and Ibn Abī Shaybah (4/252) - from Ḥafṣ- both from al-Layth from Mujāhid from Abū Hurayrah that he said: Whoever does that has disbelieved. It was also narrated by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (5/323/9018) through the route of Sufyān from al-Layth with the wording: Approaching women and men from behind is disbelief