(1) The isnad (chain) up to this point is exactly the same as that of the preceding hadith (narration): Muḥammad is the son of ʿAbd al-Bāqī, and the “Hamad” erroneously found in all manuscripts for “Aḥmad” refers to Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaddād. This latter Aḥmad is the ḥāfiẓ (hadith master) Abū Naʿīm. (2) In manuscript M there is a break in the isnad between Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī and Ibn al-Ṣabāḥ, with three of their narrators omitted. (3) In M it reads “Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabāḥ.” (4) In R and H it reads “harām,” in M “hizām,” and in the original text “hudām” with both hāʾ and dāl unvowelled. The correct reading is that adopted here, which agrees with al-Ḥilya. See his biography in al-Mīzān 4/372. In al-Taḥdhīb (11/203) it appears as “Khadām” with an unvowelled dāl; in al-Taqrīb it is “Yahya ibn Khudām,” with a kasra under the khāʾ. The commentator notes that the vowel omission in the Taḥdhīb copy is a scribal error. See al-Taqrīb 2/346. (5) The text in parentheses does not appear in the other manuscripts. (6) It is absent from the other manuscripts. (7) It is not present in H and R. (8) Abū Naʿīm transmits this hadith in al-Ḥilya 2/387, stating: “It was narrated from Mālik only by Abū Salama al-Anṣārī, whom Yahya ibn Khudām repudiates.” Al-Dhahabī includes it in al-ʿUluw (p. 43), remarking: “It is classified among the mawḍūʿāt (fabrications), and this al-Anṣārī is not reliable.” He also records it in al-Mīzān 3/600. I note that Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ziyād al-Anṣārī is described by al-ʿAqīlī as “very munkar al-hadith” (one who denies hadiths), by Ibn Ṭāhir as “such, and he has ṭamāt (serious defects),” and by Malik ibn Dīnār simply as “munkar al-hadith.” See al-Mīzān 3/598 and al-Ḍuʿafāʾ al-Kabīr of al-ʿAqīlī 4/96. Al-Dhahabī enumerates the defects mentioned by Ibn Ṭāhir, including those affecting this hadith (see al-Mīzān 3/598–600). Burhān al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī also cites it in Kashf al-Ḥathīth ʿan Rūmī bi-waḍʿi al-ḥadīth (p. 382), quoting Ibn Ṭāhir: “a liar with ṭamāt.” He explains that “and he has ṭamāt” is a euphemism for mawḍūʿāt, implying that the narrator fabricates, since he is a liar.