al-ʿAsqalānī—so refer if you wish (vol. 7, numbers 6664, 6665, and 6680-6682). If this is authentic, then the man was deemed trustworthy by al-Dāraqutnī and al-Dhahabī, and thus the chain of transmission is sound, and all praise is due to Allāh. Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh differed with Abū al-Yamān in his chain of transmission, saying: from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from his father, from his grandfather, raising it... and he mentioned it in full, except that he said regarding the hypocrite: "he seeks"! It was extracted by al-Daylamī in "Musnad al-Firdaws" (3/160 - al-Gharāʾib al-Multaqaṭah) through the route of Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl: Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Mawṣilī narrated to us: Khālid ibn Mirdās narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us... This chain of transmission's narrators are trustworthy, except for al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Mawṣilī, whom I do not know, and perhaps the discrepancy is from him. The first part of it: "Do not argue using the Quran," has a supporting narration under number (2419) with the addition: "for arguing about it is disbelief." Below it is a supporting narration for the statement, and another for the addition with the wording: "disputation about the Quran is disbelief." It is extracted in "al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr" (1124 and 1125), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr authenticated it in "al-Jāmiʿ" (2/928 - Ibn al-Jawzī), claiming that nothing else is authentic! Refer to the verification by our brother Abū..