And with that same chain he ﷺ said: “Covering one’s head in the daytime is a mark of dignity, whereas at night it arouses suspicion” (1).

Ibn ʿAdī said: I know of no one who reported this from Baqiyyah except Nuʿaym (2).

Nuʿaym also related—from al-Darāwardī, from Sahl, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah—traced back to the Prophet ﷺ: “Do not say: ‘I pour out the water,’ but rather say: ‘I urinate.’”

It was transmitted from him by Abū al-Aḥwaṣ al-ʿUkbarī, who then remarked: “Nuʿaym fabricated this ḥadith. I said to him, ‘Do not attribute it to the Prophet, for it is only the statement of Abū Hurayrah,’ so he left it as mawqūf.”

Ibn ʿAdī commented: Raising it to the Prophet in this manner is objectionable.

I say: In the end the poor fellow reverted to leaving it mawqūf.

Another of his reports comes through al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā, from Abū Bakr al-Hudhalī, from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “The Prophet ﷺ offered his wives the choice; they chose him, and that choice did not constitute a divorce” (3).

Ibn ʿAdī said: This report is not reliably preserved (4).

He also narrated—through Baqiyyah, from ʿAbd Allāh the freedman of ʿUthmān, from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās—that mention was made in their presence of a people who fight out of tribal partisanship—the rest of the ḥadith (5).

Nuʿaym has other narrations besides those I have listed.

Ibn Ḥammād—meaning al-Dūlābī—said: “Nuʿaym is weak.” The same was stated by Aḥmad ibn