Dhiʾb).” The addition in square brackets is my own conjecture that this is the correct reading, based on the two preceding versions. What prevented me from being certain of it was this version of Aḥmad’s, as well as the fact that I have not found anyone who mentions Ibn Abī Dhibāb among those who narrated from Muḥammad ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim or among the teachers of al-Ḥārith ibn Yazīd al-Ḥaḍramī. He is al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Dhibāb al-Dawsī, who was truthful but prone to error, and was one of Muslim’s narrators, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Allah knows best. The matter requires further investigation; whoever finds anything further, let him provide it, and may Allah reward him خيراً.

Al-Haythamī cited the hadith (10/54–55) and said:

“Reported by Aḥmad, Abū Yaʿlā ..., al-Bazzār with similar wording, and al-Ṭabarānī. One of Aḥmad’s two chains, as well as the chains of Abū Yaʿlā and al-Bazzār, consist of narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.”

Note: I mentioned above that al-Bukhārī recorded the hadith in al-Tārīkh. The esteemed brother Wasī Allāh had preceded me in attributing it to al-Bukhārī in his commentary on al-Faḍāʾil, but he attributed it to al-Bukhārī without specifying al-Tārīkh, thereby giving the impression that it was in his Ṣaḥīḥ. This clarification was therefore necessary. *

3438—“Indeed, people will come after me, one of whom would gladly give his family and wealth in ransom for seeing me.”

Al-Bazzār recorded it in his Musnad (3/319/2841): Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUbaydah al-ʿUṣfurī narrated to us; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Ḥanafī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ... and he then cited it.

I say: The narrators in this chain are reliable, despite the differing assessments of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād,