and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" and "al-Awsaṭ" with only one taslīmah. Its narrators are the narrators of "al-Ṣaḥīḥ." I said: There is some consideration in this generalization, for its narrator from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is only Muʿādh, and although he is trustworthy, he is not among the narrators of "al-Ṣaḥīḥ." He is Muʿādh ibn al-Muthanná ibn Muʿādh ibn Naṣr ibn Ḥassān Abū al-Muthanná al-ʿAnbarī, whom al-Khaṭīb mentioned in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (13/131) and declared trustworthy, recording his death in the year (288). Then I found another route for the ḥadīth of Anas, as Ibn Abī Shaybah said in "al-Muṣannaf" (1/118/1): Yūnus ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, saying: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim narrated to us from Ayyūb from Anas. "that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) gave one taslīmah." I said: And this isnād, all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, but Ayyūb, who is al-Sakhtiyānī, saw Anas ibn Mālik, and his hearing from him is not established. Ibn Ḥibbān said in "al-Thiqāt": "It is said that he heard from Anas, but this is not authentic according to me." In summary: this ḥadīth is authentic, and it is the most authentic of the ḥadīths that have been reported regarding the single taslīmah in prayer. Al-Bayhaqī has presented a section of them, and their isnāds are not free from weakness, but they collectively support this. Al-Bayhaqī said after them: "It has been narrated from a group of the Companions (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhum) that they gave one taslīmah, and it is among the permissible differences, and sufficing with what is allowed." Al-Tirmidhī mentioned something similar about the Companions. Then he said: "al-Shāfiʿī said: If he wishes, he may give one taslīmah, and if he wishes, he may give two." I said: The single taslīmah is obligatory and must be done, due to his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) saying: "... its conclusion is the taslīm." The two taslīmahs are sunnah, and it is permissible to occasionally omit the second due to this ḥadīth. Indeed, his (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) practice in concluding the prayer was in various ways: the first being to suffice with the single taslīmah, as previously mentioned