"It was narrated by al-Bazzār, and its men are the men of the authentic collections, except for ʿUqbah ibn Sinān, who is weak." I had doubted this weakening in "Ghāyat al-Marām" (174/285) for reasons I mentioned there. Whoever wishes may refer to it, and in summary, there is no basis for this weakening because among those named ʿUqbah ibn Sinān, none are considered weak. There are three: one is of unknown status, and he is of a higher class than this, and the other two are trustworthy. One of them is ʿUqbah ibn Sinān ibn ʿUqbah al-Haddādī al-Baṣrī, who narrated from Ghassān ibn Muḍar; it is he, and Abū Ḥātim said about him: "Truthful." The rest of the men in the isnād are trustworthy, the men of the two Shaykhs, except for Ghassān ibn Muḍar, who is a trustworthy narrator from the teachers of al-Nasāʾī. Al-Haythamī erred in not excluding him along with ʿUqbah ibn Sinān in his previous statement. The isnād is good, as al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (4/52/7), and al-Ḥāfiẓ followed him in "al-Fatḥ" (10/217). The ḥadīth has many supporting narrations that increase its strength, some of which I have documented in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (7/68-70), "Ghāyat al-Marām" (172-173/284), and "Ādāb al-Zafāf" (105-107). (Benefit): Ibn al-Athīr said in "al-Nihāyah": "The kāhin is one who claims to have knowledge of future events and secrets. Among the Arabs, there were kāhins like Shaqq and Saṭīḥ and others. Some claimed to have a jinn companion who conveyed news to them, and others claimed to know matters through preliminary causes, deducing them from the speech, actions, or state of the one who asks. This is specifically called the ʿarrāf, like one who claims to know about stolen items, the location of lost things, and similar matters. The ḥadīth that says: 'Whoever goes to a kāhin...' may include going to