because I had so often seen in the Shaykh’s annotations what contradicted what was being attributed to him—something to which I have already alluded in some of the preceding corrections. One example is this hadith: the Shaykh commented on it in Sahih Ibn Hibban (8/377), saying:

“Its chain of transmission is authentic; its narrators are reliable ...”

He then cited it through Muslim and Ibn Khuzaymah, along with al-Hakim’s authentication and al-Dhahabi’s concurrence. I do not know whether the Shaykh later withdrew his authentication in order to accommodate his student, or whether this man attributed to his Shaykh something he never said in order to strengthen his own position. The coming days will reveal this, Allah willing. (1)

Among the remarkable incongruities and obvious errors—of the sort that only a novice in this discipline could commit—is Shaykh Shu'ayb’s attribution of Ibn Sirin’s mursal report to al-Bukhari’s narration from Abu Juhaifah. Al-Dhahabi mentioned this mursal report in al-Siyar (1/543), and the Shaykh said in his source documentation:

“Ahmad (6/444) recorded it ... as did Ibn Sa'd (4/1/61), at length; and al-Bukhari recorded something similar in the Book of Fasting ... from Abu Juhaifah ...”

He then cited its lengthy wording, yet it does not contain a single word of what is found in the mursal report. Moreover, he gave the impression that the hadith in Ahmad is likewise mursal, as it is in Ibn Sa'd, whereas it is in fact a connected report from Abu Hurayrah. Such feeble source documentation leads me to believe that much of the source documentation we see attributed to Shaykh Shu'ayb is not his at all, but rather the work of some of those training under him who possess no knowledge, such as this Hassan. The same applies to the annotator of al-Ihsan: his annotations on it contain many errors, which became clear to me while preparing my critical edition of Mawarid al-Zam'an, now nearing completion, Allah willing. I considered it unlikely that such blatant errors could have come from Shaykh Shu'ayb.

I then found the hadith in Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah (3/45), through Sufyan from