who said: “The Messenger of Allah addressed us at Arafah, praised and extolled Allah, and then said: ‘To proceed: the idol-worshippers and polytheists used to leave from here at sunset, waiting until the sun rested on the tops of the mountains like men’s turbans; our practice is contrary to theirs.’ ” Al-Hakim also recorded it (2/277; 3/523) and declared, “Sound according to the criteria of the Two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi concurred, yet the grading is questionable on two grounds: 1. Muhammad ibn Qays ibn Makhrama is not cited at all by al-Bukhari. 2. Ibn Jurayj was known for tadlis, as al-Dhahabi himself states in al-Mizan, and Ahmad said, “When he says, ‘he informed us’ or ‘I heard,’ that is sufficient.” Here, however, he transmits with the ambiguous “from,” which is a defect. Al-Haythami listed the hadith in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (3/255) with wording identical to al-Hakim’s version, adding: “Al-Tabarani reported it in al-Kabir, and its transmitters are those of the Sahih.” (1) i.e. Muzdalifah; it is said to have been so named because, when Adam and Hawwa (Eve) were cast down to earth, they met there. (2) A well-known mountain near Mecca. 1– Reported by al-Bukhari (9/513–517, 553) and Muslim (6/78–79).