"It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ,' and it includes Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim al-Makkī, who is weak."

"when I narrate a ḥadīth to you, do not add to it. And he said: Four are among the best of speech, and they are from the Qurʾān; it does not harm you with which one you begin: Subḥān Allāh, al-ḥamdu lillāh, lā ilāha illā Allāh, and Allāhu akbar. Then he said: Do not name your boy Aflah, or Najīḥ, or Rabāḥ, or Yasār (for you may say: Is he there? And he is not, and it will be said: No)." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/11): Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, Shuʿbah narrated to us from Salamah ibn Kuhayl from Hilāl ibn Yasāf from Samurah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). It was also recorded by al-Ṭayālisī in 'Musnad' (899, 900): Shuʿbah narrated it in two separate places, and he was followed by Sufyān, who is al-Thawrī, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl with it, except for its first and last parts. It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/20) and Ibn Mājah (3811). And Shuʿbah had another teacher in it, as al-Ṭayālisī said (893): Shuʿbah narrated to us from Manṣūr, who said: I heard Hilāl ibn Yasāf narrating from al-Rabīʿ ibn ʿAmīlah from Samurah with it, limited to naming the boy