it is an error; for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq al-Qurashī does not narrate from Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam, nor does Abū Muʿāwiyah Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim al-Ḍarīr narrate from him. I say: this is obstinacy beyond obstinacy, and a denial of scientific facts unlike any other denial, and this is explained in several points: 1- No one from the people of knowledge, as far as I know, has denied this, so it is rejected against them; because they do not consider themselves among those capable of thorough examination and correction of the specialists among the scholars, this is what we assume of them, so it is not permissible for them—then—to deny (what they do not have full knowledge of)! 2- What they denied has been affirmed by the ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad Ibn Abī Ḥātim, as we mentioned there, and they ignored him, thus revealing their obstinacy. The statement of the ḥāfiẓ is found in his book "al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl" (2/2/212) which is in their possession. 3- That lineage (al-Qurashī) has been affirmed by two trustworthy individuals: (Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar) in "al-Musnad," who is nicknamed (Mashkadanah), and he is a trustworthy figure among the teachers of Muslim, and the other is (Yaḥyá ibn Yaḥyá) according to al-Ḥākim, who is Abū Zakariyyā al-Nīsābūrī, and he is a reliable and established figure among the teachers of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. And someone might say: perhaps they did not come across this narration of al-Ḥākim? I say: that is possible, even though they attributed it to him (p. 185); because it is certain to me that some of the compilers steal attributions from some of my books, finding it an easy morsel, and there are many examples of this, and it becomes most evident when there is an error in my attribution, which no human is free from, and it may be a typographical error, so the thief transfers it and is exposed. An example of this will soon be presented involving the so-called (Ḥassān ʿAbd al-Manān), I say: it is possible that their attribution is of this kind