With this same chain, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to me: I heard Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf, who said, “I heard Abū al-Ḥusayn Yaʿqūb al-Ardabīlī say:

‘I asked Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir, “What did Mūsā ibn Hārūn say about Ibn Bint Manīʿ?”

He replied, “Rather, what did Ibn Bint Manīʿ say about Mūsā ibn Hārūn?”

I said, “How is that?”

He answered, “Because he accepted him as his equal, tit for tat.”’

Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: ‘What is reliably preserved from Mūsā is his declaring al-Baghawī reliable, praising him, and commending him.’

ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ushnānī said: ‘I asked Mūsā ibn Hārūn about al-Baghawī, and he replied, “Reliable, truthful; if it were permissible for anyone to be described as more than reliable, it would be said of him.”

I said, “Abū ʿImrān, yet these people are speaking against him?”

He said, “They envy him. He heard (hadith) from Ibn ʿĀʾishah while we did not. Ibn Manīʿ only speaks the truth.”’

With this same chain reaching Abū Bakr: ʿAlāʾ ibn Abī al-Mughīrah al-Andalusī narrated to us, ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ informed us, ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Saʿīd informed us, saying:

‘I asked Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh, “Do you remember anything that has been criticised in Ibn Bint Manīʿ?”

He replied, “He erred in a ḥadith transmitted from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab, from Abū (2) Shihāb, from Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar.

He reported it from Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab, whereas he had actually heard it from Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ, from him. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Warrāq seized upon this slip of the tongue and circulated it among the ḥadith scholars. When word of it reached Abū al-Qāsim, he came out to us one day and acknowledged that he had made a mistake in it, explaining that he had intended to write: “Ibrāhīm ibn Hāniʾ narrated to us,” but his hand ran on.’