then I found for him a strong corroborator, and I should have noticed it earlier, but this is how it was destined. Al-Ḍiyāʾ mentioned it following al-Ṭabarānī's narration, but in his fine handwriting and in the margin. He narrated it with his isnād from Abū Yaʿlá al-Mawṣilī: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated it to us. And this Ibrāhīm ibn ʿArʿarah is trustworthy, as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb," so the ḥadīth is confirmed by this corroboration, and all praise is due to Allāh. Al-Ḥāfiẓ attributed it in "al-Maṭālib al-ʿĀliyah" (4/248/4363) to Abū Yaʿlá, as did al-Būṣīrī in "Ittiḥāf al-Sādah al-Mahrah" (2/99/1), and both remained silent about it! Shaykh al-Aʿẓamī, the commentator on "al-Maṭālib," was satisfied with their silence and remained silent as well! Then I saw it in "al-Maṭālib al-ʿĀliyah al-Musnadah" (2/86/1), where it was said: Abū Yaʿlá said: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArʿarah narrated to us ... etc. (Benefit): Al-Ḥāfiẓ mentioned in "al-Tahdhīb" that Ibn Ḥibbān quoted in "al-Thiqāt" from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal the authentication of this Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīrah, and it is in "Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān" (6/134), but this authentication is not there. Yes, it is in "al-ʿIlal wa-Maʿrifat al-Rijāl" by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad; he said (2/159/1057): "I heard my father say: Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīrah al-Qummī — and he is Jaʿfar al-Muṣawwir — is trustworthy, and he is Jaʿfar ibn Dīnār." And this is a precious benefit absent from the main sources, and all praise is due to Allāh, by whose grace righteous deeds are completed. The discussion on him and on his narrator Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qummī has already been mentioned under ḥadīth (580). *