All of this arose from uncritical imitation and from holding a favourable opinion of the author, al-Mundhirī, despite his many errors—errors which al-Nājī himself found surprising and of which he exposed a great many. Yet other matters escaped him; I have drawn attention to some of them in my annotations to Ṣaḥīḥ al-Targhīb and Ḍaʿīf al-Targhīb, and this is one of them.

Then al-Nājī himself—despite having exposed so many errors!—fell into another error, saying:

“The wording ‘usurpation’ was not known to Imam al-Bulqīnī in his Tadrīb (1), and so he said:

‘There is nothing in the hadiths stating, “Whoever usurps ...”’

Nor was it known to our teacher Ibn Ḥajar, following his teacher Ibn al-Mulaqqin in Tracing the Hadiths of al-Rāfiʿī, for they both said: ‘None of them narrated it with the wording, “Whoever usurps ...”’

I say: This denial may be valid with regard to al-Bulqīnī. Although I have not yet come across his remarks in al-Badr al-Munīr—because the volume containing the Book of Sales has not yet been printed—I did find it in Khulāṣat al-Badr al-Munīr. After citing a version similar to it from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, he said (2/98/1620):

“I do not know of any narration containing the wording, ‘Whoever usurps,’ although I cited it in the original through chains in which it does not occur.”

I say: Thus, al-Nājī’s correction of him is valid, unlike that concerning his teacher Ibn Ḥajar. For, after tracing the hadith of Abū Hurayrah in several wordings, as well as other hadiths whose wordings he did not cite, he said: