al-Haythamī said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (1/236): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ', and he reported it in 'al-Kabīr' as attributed to Ibn Masʿūd; and its isnād is good." I say: The isnād of "al-Kabīr" is authentic; for he extracted it (9/282/1921 and 2/1921) through the route of al-Thawrī and Zāʾidah from Abū Miskīn as attributed [to Ibn Masʿūd], but it is in the meaning of marfūʿ, so it is not surpassed by the marfūʿ, as is apparent. Then I saw what was previously mentioned by al-Haythamī was also mentioned by al-Mundhirī in "al-Targhīb" (1/103/4), and I thought he followed him, except that he added to it; he said: "And in a narration of his in 'al-Kabīr' as attributed: he said: 'Interlace the five fingers; Allāh will not fill them with fire.'" I said: al-Ṭabarānī extracted it (9213) through the route of Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif who said: I was informed about ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd that he said: ... and he mentioned it. Its narrators are trustworthy; except for the man who was not named. Then al-Mundhirī said: "His saying: 'to thoroughly clean them'; meaning: to be thorough in washing them, or for the fire to be thorough in burning them. And (al-nahk): thoroughness in everything." The interpretation of (al-nahk) as mentioned is known, but it does not fit with the wording that occurred in the ḥadīth according to him, and for this reason, the critic al-Nājī followed up by saying in "ʿAjālatuhu" (p. 42): "His saying: 'to thoroughly clean the fingers with purification, or the fire will thoroughly clean them,' and his interpretation of that—with the addition of a tāʾ and the breaking of the hāʾ—from (al-intihāk) is not intended here at all."