in embellishment and correction?! Even if we hypothetically concede its weakness—as claimed—why not say: they strengthen each other; as is the well-known principle among scholars?! So where is this statement and its speaker compared to the statement of al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī and its speaker: "We have become certain through undeniable paths of the Prophet's (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) prohibition against approaching women from behind, and we have decisively declared it forbidden, and I have a large treatise on this"?! See "Ādāb al-Zafāf" (p. 106 - Islamic Library Edition).

- (Whoever among you can avoid having a handful of a Muslim's blood stand between him and Paradise, as if he were slaughtering a chicken, every time he approaches a gate of Paradise, Allāh will stand between him and it. And whoever can ensure that nothing enters his stomach except what is pure, for the first thing to decay in a person is his stomach). It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (2/171/1662) from Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī, and "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (9/225/8490) and al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (4/347/5350), both from Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Aswad. They said: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us from Qatādah from al-Ḥasan from Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said:... and he mentioned it, - the context is for al-Bayhaqī -, and he said: "And likewise Abū Kāmil narrated it from Abū ʿAwānah as a marfūʿ narration, and the correct version is mawqūf"! Al-Haythamī said: (7/297) "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ", and "al-Kabīr", and its narrators are the narrators of (the authentic collections)". And this is more precise than the statement of al-Mundhirī (3/203) "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and its narrators are trustworthy"