have contradicted myself and gone along with Ibn Ḥibbān in his eccentricities and in his judgment that the ḥadith of kneading is weak. A detailed rebuttal will follow, God willing, together with ten illustrative cases of transmitters whose reliability was endorsed only by Ibn Ḥibbān and then accepted by the two eminent ḥadith masters al-Dhahabī and Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī. You will find this discussion in the section “How to Rise from Prostration,” pp. 197–207.