I add: there is yet another report in Sunan al-Nasai: “The Abyssinians entered the mosque playing, and he said to me, ‘O Humayra, would you like to watch them?’” Its chain is sound. Al-Zarkashi’s quotation ends here. In his notes on al-Manar, Shaykh Abu Ghudda pointed out a third hadith transmitted by al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak, 3/119, in which al-Hakim says: “This hadith is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, though they did not include it,” and al-Dhahabi remarks: “Abd al-Jabbar is a narrator from whom they did not transmit.” (End of quotation, with an addition and a correction.) I observe that the editorial liberty he mentions requires examination, which is not the place to undertake here. Yet this attempt to correct the judgments of the two hadith masters is not acceptable coming from someone like Abu Ghudda: first, because he is not a specialist in the field; and second, because the isnad of the hadith contains Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Hafid, one of al-Hakim’s own teachers. Al-Hakim himself states in his Tarikh: “He was obscure, a Hanafi who drank intoxicants in accordance with his school and did not conceal it.”