with its latter portion: “...nor did they conceal themselves from His Messenger,” thereby indicating that his version ended at this point, for the reason that follows. He then said: “Hārūn narrated to us ... from him, with it. Abū Yaʿlā also narrated it from Hārūn with the same chain, adding: ‘Umm Ayman was with him ... he did not seek forgiveness for him.’” That is what he said! Yet he failed to notice that this addition also occurs in Aḥmad’s version—the wording I cited is his. It seems, then, that he confused its wording with that of al-Bazzār, whose version is the one that does not contain the aforementioned addition. A similar error was made by the doctor who annotated it. Commenting on al-Ḥāfiẓ’s words, “adding,” he said: “This addition also occurs in Hārūn’s narration!” What he meant to say was, “... Aḥmad’s,” but he said, “Hārūn’s”!

2992 — “When the dawn prayer has commenced, perform tawaf around the House while riding your camel, as the people are praying.” He said this to Umm Salamah.

Al-Bukhārī (1626) recorded it through Abū Marwān Yaḥyā ibn Abū Zakariyyā al-Ghassānī, from Hishām, from ʿUrwah, from Umm Salamah, the Prophet’s wife, may Allah be pleased with her: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to her—while he was in Mecca and intended to depart, and Umm Salamah had not performed tawaf around the House and also wished to depart—what was mentioned above. She did so, but did not pray until she had departed.

I say: Despite al-Bukhārī’s having included him, few scholars declared this Yaḥyā reliable. Indeed, Abū Dāwūd said: “Weak.” Ibn Ḥibbān said in The Weak Narrators (3/126): “It is not permissible to narrate from him, due to the frequency with which he contradicted the trustworthy narrators in what he reports from the firmly established authorities.” But I saw that al-Bazzār said (4/23, Kashf al-Astār):