Muhammad ibn Sirin, who said: “From Abu al-ʿAliyah,” as has already been mentioned. Al-Nasa’i said regarding Yahya’s hadith: “This is correct, whereas the one before it is erroneous.” And Allah knows best.

I say: I have not found the narration of ʿAmr ibn ʿAli—from Abu al-ʿAlaniyah—nor Yazid ibn Harun’s corroboration, in the chapter on the wedding feast in al-Nasa’i’s al-Sunan al-Kubra, or in any other source where it might be expected to occur. Makhlad’s narration, however, is found in its chapter on drinks, in both the printed edition and the photographic copy in my possession. Yet it reads “Abu al-ʿAliyah,” which is why al-Nasa’i said immediately afterward: “Abu al-ʿAliyah is correct, whereas the one before it is erroneous.”

I say: Nothing preceding this in the printed edition differs from the stated correct reading, so it appears that an omission has occurred in it, as indicated by the foregoing. Moreover, it seems that the printed reading, “Abu al-ʿAliyah,” is an error by the typesetter or copyist, both in the chain of transmission and in al-Nasa’i’s comment on it; and that the correct reading in both places is “Abu al-ʿAlaniyah.” This accords with al-Mizzi’s preceding statement and agrees with what al-Hafiz al-ʿAsqalani said in Abu al-ʿAlaniyah’s biographical entry: “It was also said: from Muhammad, from Abu al-ʿAliyah, from Abu Saʿid. Al-Nasa’i said: ‘This is erroneous.’”

It also appears that this error is an old one. For al-Mizzi said after his preceding remarks: “In some copies, ‘from Abu al-ʿAliyah’ occurs in both hadiths. Abu al-Qasim—that is, Ibn ʿAsakir—likewise cited them both this way. This is a mistake, for al-Nasa’i drew attention to the discrepancy in two places. And Allah knows best.”

Accordingly, the readings found in the two sources cited alongside al-Nasa’i at the beginning of the source documentation—Ahmad and al-Tabarani—are also erroneous. This is further supported, as regards Ahmad’s narration, by the fact that al-Mizzi transmitted it through his chain from Ahmad