Al-‘Uqaylī said, “He narrated from al-Sha‘bī a number of confused reports that no one corroborates.”

I say: This particular wording is the one that has become widespread in our time among certain writers and compilers. I wished, therefore, to point out its weakness and to direct the reader to the fact that the earlier wording is the sound, reliable version. I have also appended to it whatever authentic additions I have been able to locate. Allah is the One who grants success.

70 – “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would stick out his tongue for al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī, whereupon the child would see the redness of his tongue and rush toward him in delight.”

Abū Shaykh Ibn Ḥibbān narrated it in his Book of the Prophet’s Character and Etiquette (p. 90) through the route of Muḥammad ibn ‘Amr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah.

I say: This chain is sound.