Errors committed by al-ʿIrāqī concerning the hadith:

A meticulous reader who examines the words of the ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī, as quoted by the shaykh, will find in them numerous mistakes that must be exposed in defense of the hadith, not of particular personalities.

First: He endorses al-Tirmidhī’s grading of the report as ḥasan because it is supported by the narration of Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar, yet, when discussing the decisive wording, he says: “It was narrated categorically only by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, and he is unanimously deemed weak.” A little later, however, he himself states that al-Dāraquṭnī transmitted it categorically through the trustworthy Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar. How, then, can his earlier remark—which confines the categorical narration to the weak ʿAbd Allāh—be correct?

Likewise, his statement regarding this Muḥammad’s narration—“he did not state this exact wording as categorically as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar did”—is undoubtedly erroneous and contrary to reality.

Second: his claim that the narration of Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar is transmitted with uncertainty, whereas