his Musnad,” and the committee overseeing the publication of al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr followed him in this, as is their custom. All of this is erroneous, for al-Ṭaḥāwī—may Allah have mercy on him—has no book known by the title al-Musnad. And Allah knows best.

2878 — “Name him after the dearest of names to me: Hamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.”

Al-Ḥākim transmitted it (3/196) by way of Yaʿqūb ibn Ḥumayd ibn Kāsib: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah, who said: A man among us had a baby boy, and they said, “What shall we name him?” The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—said—and he mentioned it above. Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī challenged this, saying: “I say: Yaʿqūb is weak.” That is what he said, although the scholars differed regarding the man, as may be seen in Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb. Al-Dhahabī summarized this in al-Taqrīb, saying: “Truthful, though he sometimes erred.”

Al-Dhahabī himself also cited some of this disagreement in al-Kāshif, saying: “Al-Bukhārī said: ‘We have seen nothing but good from him’—while al-Tahdhīb reads: ‘He remained good’—‘and he is fundamentally truthful.’” For this reason, al-Dhahabī included him in his book Knowledge of Narrators Criticized in a Manner That Does Not Warrant Rejection (p. 191), marking him therein with the siglum “M.” I believe this to be a typographical error, since it conflicts with every biographical source that mentions him, including al-Kāshif, in which he is marked only with the sigla “ʿAkh” and “Q.”

Moreover, he was corroborated: al-Ḥākim also transmitted it by way of Yūsuf ibn Salmān al-Māzinī: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, who heard a man in Medina say: