but it has supporting evidence; among them: from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ḥudayj, elevated [to the Prophet] similarly. It was recorded by Aḥmad in "al-Musnad" (6/401), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (19/430/1044), and in "al-Awsaṭ" (9/134/9337) through the route of Saʿīd ibn Abī Ayyūb: Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb narrated to us from Suwayd ibn Qays from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ḥudayj who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: ... and he mentioned it. It also has two other supporting narrations from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar; both are referenced earlier in this book under number (245). (Note): In the narration of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd, the word "three" appears at the beginning, which is objectionable or anomalous; due to what is known about the condition of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd. And it appears in "Musnad Aḥmad" as "three times"; in the accusative case, which is more objectionable; because it has no basis in any of the aforementioned ḥadīths. Al-Suyūṭī mistakenly thought that the first wording was part of the ḥadīth itself, so he mentioned it under (the letter thāʾ): "Three if it was ... "! I have pointed this out in the commentary on it. This is the last of what the Shaykh has verified from this blessed "series," God willing, and that was at the end of the month of Jumādá al-Ūlá in the year 1420. We ask Allāh to make it beneficial knowledge that brings him reward until the Day of Judgment, indeed He is the All-Hearing, the Responsive. O Allāh, forgive him and have mercy on him, indeed You are the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful. *