Continuation of the critiques and supplemental notes …

Hadith no. 59: “Whenever he put on a turban, he let its tail fall between his shoulders.”

There is no clear evidence that the Shaykh ever shifted from authenticating this report to grading it weak.

All that happened is that he declared another narration weak: “He would wind the coils of his turban around his head, secure it at the back, and let a portion of it hang between his shoulders.” This appears in al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah under no. 4267.

In his commentary the Shaykh wrote: “Denounced (munkar)! Yet its final clause—letting the turban hang between his shoulders—is sound, for it has corroborating chains that strengthen it, among them the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar and other routes I documented in al-Ṣaḥīḥah 717. One of those routes is this very chain through Abū ʿAbd al-Salām. Thereafter Allah Most High, by His grace and generosity, enabled me to locate the isnād in full, so I hastened to cite it here and uncover its defect, namely the unknown status of Abū Salām.”

So whence did our esteemed brother understand that the Shaykh had revoked his authentication?

Allah, exalted is He, knows best.

—Continuation—

Hadith no. 51: “I have married you to someone who is no impostor—meaning ʿAlī.”

The narration from which the Shaykh did withdraw his earlier verdict of authenticity is: “ʿAlī sought Fāṭimah’s hand from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who said, ‘She is yours provided you treat her well.’”

It is found in al-Ṣaḥīḥah (166), but he later graded it weak in al-Ḍaʿīfah (12/880–883) under hadith no. 6392.

Allah knows best.

Muhammad al-Ḥasan’s addenda end here.