Furthermore, Imam al-Baghawī graded the hadith under discussion as good, but the commentator criticized him on account of Ibn al-Sāʾib’s memory impairment, overlooking the authentic chain recorded by Ibn Mājah. He also overlooked a corroborating report for it, narrated by Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir from his father, as I shall mention. This is not surprising, since it is found—at the very least—in some sources that were not among his references. What is surprising, however, is that he overlooked Ibn Mājah’s chain.

He then attributed the aforementioned narration of al-Thawrī to Imam Aḥmad. This was either an error or an oversight of the fact that the Imam did not live to meet al-Thawrī. He assumed that, when he said, “Sufyān narrated to us,” without specifying which Sufyān, he meant al-Thawrī, as mentioned above.

Note: In the entry for “ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr al-Laythī al-Makkī, from Ibn ʿUmar” (5/474), al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī did not include the aforementioned narration of al-Nasāʾī from him; nor did he refer to it in the entry for his father, ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr (6/7). Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar likewise failed to supplement this in al-Nukat al-Ẓirāf ʿalā al-Aṭrāf. How far above imperfection is He who encompasses all things in knowledge.

I then found a corroborating report for the hadith which I had included in the other book. I have now decided, after seeking Allah’s guidance, to transfer it here because of its supporting reports. Its wording is: “Whoever circumambulates the House seven times, engaging in no idle talk during it, will have a reward equivalent to freeing a slave.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh (4/2/35), al-Fasawī in al-Maʿrifah (2/115–116), al-Mukhalliṣ in al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh (9/200/1), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (20/360/845), through Ḥurayth ibn al-Sāʾib—the muezzin of Banū Salimah—from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir al-Qurashī al-Taymī, from his father, from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—who said it.