that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw a man supplicating with both forefingers, so he forbade him and said, “With one of them—the right.” Al-Haythami comments in Majmaʿ al-zawaʾid (10:168): “Its transmitters are the transmitters of the Sahih.” Al-Tabarani likewise narrated it in al-Awsat with the wording: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked at a man who was pointing with two fingers and said, ‘Ahhid, ahhid (keep it to one).’ ” Its narrators are reliable. A supporting report comes from Anas: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by Saʿd while he was supplicating with two fingers and said, ‘Ahhid, O Saʿd!’ ” Ahmad transmitted it; the tabiʿi in the chain is unnamed, and the rest of the transmitters are those of the Sahih. Ibn ʿUmar likewise saw a man pointing with two fingers; he folded one of them and said, “Allah is but one God.” Al-Tabarani related it mawquf, and its transmitters are the transmitters of the Sahih. (It has an additional corroboration in Ibn Abi Shaybah.) (*) (*) See Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 2:231 (no. 8435) and 6:89 (nos. 29684–29685).