they said, Sufyān narrated to us, Yaḥyá ibn Hānī narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Maḥmūd who said, I was with Anas ibn Mālik praying, he said, between the columns. Then Anas moved back, and when we finished praying, he said, we used to avoid this during the time of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf informed us, ʿUqbah ibn Mukram narrated to us, Muslim ibn Qutaybah narrated to us from Hārūn ibn Muslim from Qatādah from Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah from his father who said, we were forbidden from praying between the columns and were driven away from it. Both isnāds are authentic, and they did not include anything in this chapter. Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, Abū al-Muthanná informed us, Musaddad narrated to us, Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl from Anas ibn Mālik who said, the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) loved for the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār to be close to him so they could learn from him. This is an authentic ḥadīth according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, but they did not include it. It has a corroborating authentic witness in learning from him. Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us, Usayd ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us, al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us from Sufyān and a good deed is written for him until he enters the mosque. Authentic. Shaddād Abū Ṭalḥah al-Rāsibī, I heard Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah from Anas who said, it is from the sunnah that when you enter the mosque, you start with your right foot, and when you leave, you start with your left foot. According to the criteria of Muslim. Zāʾidah from al-Mukhtār ibn Fulful from Anas that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) urged them to pray and forbade them from leaving before he finished the prayer. According to the criteria of Muslim. Anas said, we used to avoid praying between the columns. Refer to its isnād. Hārūn ibn Muslim from Qatādah from Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah from his father, we were forbidden from praying between the columns and were driven away from it. Authentic. Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ from Ḥumayd from Anas, the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) loved for the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār to be close to him so they could learn from him. According to their criteria. Now let us see how the ḥadīth of Anas was weakened by the aforementioned witness, and how it contradicted the earlier and later meticulous ḥadīth scholars who authenticated its narrator ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Maḥmūd, and authenticated his ḥadīth, while Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Dāraqutnī, al-Dhahabī, and al-ʿAsqalānī, among others who authenticated the ḥadīth, like al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Ḥibbān as well, and al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī, all these imams are mistaken according to (Ḥassān) who did not follow them (with excellence). He claimed that (ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd) is unknown! And relied on Abū Ḥātim's statement about him: (a shaykh), which does not mean to him that he is unknown as it comes, and on ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's statement about him: "he is not used as evidence," attributing it to "al-Tahdhīb," and the explanation of what it contains that compromises scholarly integrity will come. As for ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq's mentioned statement, it is because not using a person as evidence has many reasons