Second: In Mukhtaṣar Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr by Shaykh Nasīb al-Rifāʿī—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—it states (3/421):

“Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bazzār narrated from Jābir, or from a man who said to the Prophet …”

This is a remarkable confusion, the invalidity of which is self-evident and needs no explanation.

Third: His fellow townsman, Shaykh al-Ṣābūnī, says in his abridgement (3/38):

“Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bazzār narrated: A man said …”

Because of his ignorance of this noble discipline, when he saw the aforementioned variation in the original—that is, Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr—he was unable to abridge it by saying, for example: “… from Abū Hurayrah or Jābir”! Had it been from either of them, he would have abridged it from him and printed it in an annotation, misleading readers into thinking that it was his own source-documentation, pretending to possess what he had not been given—an old habit we recognize from Akhzam! Allah’s help is sought.

3483—“He left behind two cauterizations—or three!” This was said of one who died leaving behind two or three dinars.

Ibn Abī Shaybah transmitted it in al-Muṣannaf (3/372): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Numayr narrated to us: Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

A funeral bier of a man from the Anṣār was brought to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He performed the funeral prayer over him and then asked, “What did he leave behind?” They replied, “He left two or three dinars.” He said … and then mentioned it.

Aḥmad also transmitted it (2/429): Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān, with the same chain; but it does not contain the words, “from the Anṣār.”