to it explicitly, but rather he hinted at its strength by introducing it with his saying: "and from," instead of saying: "it was narrated"! This indicates that they do not even excel in imitation, as they stumble blindly in the dark night! Then al-Haythamī added to the citation, joining "the two Muʿjams"; he said: "and al-Bazzār"! I say: In this attribution, there is a leniency and negligence that is not hidden from one who reviews al-Bazzār's narration, for he said in "his Musnad" (6/47-477- al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār): Bishr ibn Ādam narrated to us... he provided the isnād as previously mentioned up to Salmān in a marfūʿ form, but with the wording: "When a Muslim performs ablution and perfects it, then prays the five prayers; his sins fall away as these leaves fall away"; then the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) recited: "Establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds" (Sūrah Hūd, 11:114). I said: And I fear that there might be an omission in the printed version; for this wording is only from the ḥadīth of ʿAlī ibn Zayd from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī from Salmān, as narrated by Aḥmad (5/437-439) and others like Ibn Naṣr in "Taʿẓīm Qadr al-Ṣalāh" (1/150/83); or it is from al-Bazzār's own errors. The ḥadīth of the chapter has also been narrated through the route of Abān ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr from Masrūq from Salmān in a marfūʿ form with the wording: "When the believing servant stands in prayer; his sins are placed on his head; then they disperse from him, just as the clusters of a palm tree disperse to the right and left."