Addenda
- p. 104, Hadith 1575.
Add the following to the sources mentioned immediately before, “and ʿAbd al-Ghanī ...”:
Al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (22/75/185).
- p. 112, Hadith 1584:
I said there: Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr in a report from ʿImrān attributed to the Prophet, and its chain contains narrators whom I was unable to identify, as al-Haythamī said (60/95).
And I now say, after the publication of the eighteenth volume of al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, edited by the virtuous brother Ḥamdī ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Salafī—who presented it to me along with the remaining volumes, the last of which is the twenty-fifth, with which the Muʿjam concludes—may Allah reward him well for his precious gift and for the tremendous effort he has made for the Muslims in bringing this magnificent work into print. I say:
Al-Ṭabarānī said in his Muʿjam (18/124/254):
Muḥammad ibn Ḥamūyah al-Jawharī al-Ahwāzī narrated to us: Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-ʿAlawī narrated to us: Bakr ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zabbān narrated to us: Ḥassān ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mūriq, from Ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said:
“Indeed, the best of Allah’s servants ...”
This is how its chain of transmission appears in the printed edition. It contains some errors on the part of either the copyist or the printer, which must be explained and corrected—or corrected insofar as possible. I therefore say: