I say: This likewise does not weaken the report, for a number of trustworthy transmitters have related it from him with an uninterrupted chain—as we have just cited from al-Ḥākim—and others have transmitted it through different isnāds; hence, the objection of those who disagree is of no consequence.

Kurayb ibn Sulaymān al-Kindī also corroborated the ḥadith. He said:

“ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) took me by the hand and led me to a man of Quraysh from the clan of Banū Zuhrah, known as Ibn Abī Ḥathmah, who was performing prayer nearby. When Ibn Abī Ḥathmah concluded his prayer and turned toward us, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn asked him, ‘The ḥadith you mentioned from your mother concerning the incantation—what is it?’ He replied, ‘Yes. My mother told me that she used to recite an incantation in the pre-Islamic period. When Islam arrived she said, “I will not recite any incantation until I seek permission from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.” The Prophet said, “Recite incantations as long as they contain no associationism with Allah.”’”

Ibn Ḥibbān (1414) and al-Ḥākim (4/57) recorded it through the route of al-Jarāḥ ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Kindī from Kurayb, and Ibn Mundah cited it in suspended form from this same path.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned this Kurayb in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (3/2/169), but he gave his father’s name as Sulaym and offered neither criticism nor commendation.

Al-Ḥākim and Ibn Mundah later narrated the report in Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah (2/332/1) through the chain of ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿUthmān ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Ḥathmah al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī: “My father told me from my grandfather ʿUthmān ibn Sulaymān, from his father, from his mother al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh that she used to perform the incantations of the pre-Islamic era. When she emigrated to the Prophet ﷺ she said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I used to recite incantations in the pre-Islamic period, and I would like to present them to you.’ He said, ‘Present them.’ She presented them, and among them was the incantation for namlah (a certain skin ailment). He said, ‘Use it for ruqyah and teach it to Ḥafṣah: In the name of Allah, ṣalūb, ḥīn …’”