The other defect—and it is more significant than the first—is that Ibn Rāhawayh’s hadith reads, “a gold ring,” whereas Aḥmad’s hadith reads, “a silver ring.” It is plainly evident to any researcher that the latter is the more likely preserved wording from Ibn Jurayj, since Rūḥ—namely, Ibn ʿUbādah, who was also Aḥmad’s shaykh—corroborated al-Makhzūmī in reporting it from him. Muslim likewise transmitted this report (6/152) through Ibn Numayr: Rūḥ related it to us in the same manner. Abū ʿĀṣim also corroborated him there, from Ibn Jurayj, as did Hishām ibn Sulaymān in Abū al-Shaykh’s al-Akhlāq (114).

Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd also corroborated Ibn Jurayj, from Ibn Shihāb, in the same manner. It was transmitted by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd (4221), and Aḥmad (3/160 and 223); al-Bukhārī cited it in suspended form—as will follow—as did Ibn Ḥibbān (5466) and Abū Yaʿlā (3538). Yūnus ibn Yazīd al-Aylī likewise narrated it from Ibn Shihāb. Al-Bukhārī transmitted it (5868) and said: “Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, Ziyād, and Shuʿayb corroborated him, from al-Zuhrī. Ibn Musāfir said, from al-Zuhrī: ‘I see a silver ring.’”

Al-Ismāʿīlī transmitted Shuʿayb’s narration with a connected chain, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Fatḥ (10/321); but he overlooked the fact that Aḥmad also transmitted it with a connected chain (3/225). Al-Ismāʿīlī likewise transmitted the narration of Ibn Musāfir—who was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn Musāfir, a trustworthy narrator among those relied upon by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim—through Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair, from al-Layth, from him. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “It does not contain the wording, ‘I see’; thus, it seems to have been added by al-Bukhārī.” I say: I consider it highly unlikely that this was an addition by him. Rather, the report came in this form to Ibn