of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Wine has been cursed in ten respects...” — the rest of the hadith. Ibn Lahi'ah and others also narrated it from Abu Tumah through this chain. It is cited in al-Irwa' (5/365/1529). In one narration, Ibn Lahi'ah said: “I do not know what his name is.” Ahmad transmitted it (2/71).

I say: Ibn Lahi'ah’s statement indicates that Abu Tumah was not well-known by his name. This is why I had said in Sahih Abi Dawud: “He is better known by his agnomen.” It has thus become clear to me from the foregoing that Hilal was Abu Tumah, as al-Dhahabi and others stated definitively. Since this is so, he is trustworthy, as al-Dhahabi said in the section on agnomens in al-Kashif, contrary to al-Hafiz’s judgment of him as “acceptable,” for a number of trustworthy narrators transmitted from him and Ibn Ammar al-Mawsili declared him trustworthy. Accordingly, our ruling on the hadith differs from what we previously stated in the commentary on al-Kalim al-Tayyib, namely that it was good: it is intrinsically authentic, further strengthened by the earlier route from Asma' and by its two corroborating reports from Aishah and Ibn Abbas. Praise be to Allah, who guided us to this; we would never have found guidance had Allah not guided us, Most High.

Note: The wording of the hadith in Ibn Hibban’s al-Mawarid is: “Allah, Allah is my Lord; I associate nothing with Him. Allah, Allah is my Lord; I associate nothing with Him.” Thus it is repeated twice. I do not know whether this is how the narration appears in it, or whether it is a typographical error. The former is more likely, since al-Jazari likewise cited it, on Ibn Hibban’s authority, in Uddat al-Hisn al-Hasin (p. 194), contrary to what appears in al-Shawkani’s commentary al-Tuhfah and in al-Ihsan (2/112/861).