" and he mentioned this ḥadīth—the ḥadīth of Muʾammal—to Abū ʿAbd Allāh (meaning Imām Aḥmad), and Abū ʿAbd Allāh said: 'Ghundar narrated to us from Shuʿbah from Yaʿlá ibn ʿAṭāʾ from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who said: The example of the believer is like that of a bee.'" I said: It appeared in Ibn ʿAsākir's copy as: "from Yaʿlá ibn ʿAṭāʾ from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr." And I fear that something might have been omitted from it, for Ibn Abī Shaybah produced it in "Kitāb al-Īmān" (no. 89 - in my verification) with Aḥmad's isnād differing from what is in it, saying: Ghundar narrated to us from Shuʿbah from Yaʿlá ibn ʿAṭāʾ from his father from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr who said: "The example of the believer...." Thus he said: "from his father" and did not raise it, and perhaps this is correct. And if this is established, then Imām Aḥmad indicates that Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl made a mistake in the isnād of the ḥadīth, saying: "from Wakiʿ ibn ʿAdas" and the correct version is "from his father" as Ghundar said, for he is more reliable than Muʾammal, and he also erred in raising it, because Ghundar stopped it at Ibn Abī Shaybah, and perhaps it is the same at Ibn ʿAsākir, but some copyists raised it! Yes, it has been reported as raised through two other paths from Shuʿbah, as Ibn al-Sammāk said in "Ḥadīth" (2/90/2): Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá narrated to us, Salām ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, Shuʿbah narrated to us with Ghundar's isnād as raised. And this Salām, who is Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Madāʾinī al-Ḍarīr, was said by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taqrīb": "weak." But he was followed by Ḥajjāj ibn Naṣīr who said: Shuʿbah informed us of it. It was produced by al-Qaḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (110/1). And Ḥajjāj is also weak. But he was followed by Ḥaramī ibn ʿAmārah ibn Abī Ḥafṣah who said: Shuʿbah informed us of it. It was produced by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr" (4/1/248/1058). And Ḥaramī