Imam Sahib narrates from his teacher Muhammad bin Yahya the hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him). (Imam Sahib says) I heard Muhammad bin Yahya saying that all these chains of narration from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) are preserved and established according to us, except for the narration of Abu Bakr bin Sulaiman bin Abi Hathmah. Regarding this, I have a concern in my heart that it might be mursal from the narration of Malik, Shu'ayb, and Salih bin Kaysan, because Mu'ammar, contrary to them, has mentioned Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) in the chain of narration. (And Allah knows best.) Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that the words at the end of the narration of Muhammad bin Kathir from Awza'i (1040), "And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not perform the two prostrations of forgetfulness when the people reminded him," these are not the words of Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah, but rather the statement of Imam Zuhri. Have you not seen that Muhammad bin Yusuf (narration number 1041) did not mention these words in this story, nor did Ibn Wahb in the narration of Yunus, nor did Walid bin Muslim in the narration of Abdur Rahman bin Amr mention these words (see narrations number 1042, 1043)? None of the narrators whose narrations I have mentioned have stated these words, except for Abu Salih, who narrates from Imam Zuhri through Layth. Indeed, he made a mistake in the narration and caused doubt of error in his narration. Thus, he mentioned the last statement of Imam Zuhri without mentioning Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not perform the prostrations of forgetfulness on the day of Dhu’l-Yadayn (the incident), and did not remember the complete story. Whereas Layth, in the narration from Yunus, has mentioned the complete story and clarified that indeed Imam Zuhri said that on that day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not perform the prostrations of forgetfulness, and that none of his teachers narrated to him that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the prostrations on that day. It is not that he narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not perform the prostrations on that day. Undoubtedly, it is narrated mutawatir from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the prostrations of forgetfulness on the day of Dhu’l-Yadayn (the incident). No one who is acquainted with the sayings of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) can deny these narrations. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I have already dictated the narration of Shu’bah from Sa’d bin Ibrahim from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him). I have also mentioned the routes of narration of Yahya bin Abi Kathir from Abu Salamah from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him). And I have also mentioned the chains of narration of Muhammad bin Sirin from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him). I have also narrated the narration of Dawud bin Husayn from Abu Sufyan, the freed slave of Ibn Abi Ahmad, from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed the two prostrations of forgetfulness on the day of Dhu’l-Yadayn (the incident). Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I have mentioned the chains of narration and the words of these narrations in Kitab al-Kabir.