Note / Clarification: (1) In the manuscripts this name has been distorted to "Muhammad", whereas the correct name is established in the narration of Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim in al-Bayhaqi's "Dala'il al-Nubuwwah" (1/281).

Note / Clarification: (2) It comes thus in the narration from Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim in al-Bayhaqi's "al-Dala'il" (1/281), and it is what al-Dhahabi retained in "Tarikh al-Islam" (1/749), quoting from al-Bayhaqi. What is meant by this is that he narrates it with a connected chain from the men of his own people, since he narrates it "from his father Muhriz bin Mahdi al-Khuza'i, from Hizam bin Hisham bin Hubaysh al-Khuza'i, from his father, from his grandfather", as is made clear by the narration of those who recorded it through this route. So the expression here "an aba'ihi" (from his forefathers) is figurative, and it is better and more fitting than the wording that comes in our manuscripts, "an abihi" (from his father), without stating from whom his father narrated it.

Grading: (3) There is no harm in the narrators of this chain (la ba'sa bihim), except "Muhriz", the father of "Mukram".
Technical note / Defect ('illah): Muhriz bin Mahdi al-Khuza'i narrates this report from Hizam bin Hisham bin Hubaysh, from his father, from his grandfather, but no one is known to have narrated from Muhriz except his son Mukram (i.e. he is of unknown condition).

Reference / Source: Al-Bayhaqi narrated it in "Dala'il al-Nubuwwah" (1/281) from Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim, with this same chain. It was also narrated by Ya'qub bin Shaybah in "al-Musnad", Ya'qub bin Sufyan in "al-Tarikh", Muhammad bin Harun al-Ruyani in "al-Ghurar fi al-Tiwalat", Abu Sa'id al-Mufaddal bin Muhammad al-Jundi in "Fada'il Makkah" (see Ibn Nasir al-Din, Jami' al-Athar 4/309-313), Muhammad bin Harun al-Ansari in "Sifat al-Nabi" (p. 19), al-Ajurri in "al-Shari'ah" (1020), al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (3605), Ibn Mandah in "Ma'rifat al-Sahabah" (1/400-405), al-Lalaka'i in "Usul al-I'tiqad" (1433), Abu Nu'aym in "Dala'il al-Nubuwwah" (238) and "Ma'rifat al-Sahabah" (2266 and 7002), al-Bayhaqi in "al-Dala'il" (1/277), Ibn Abd al-Barr in "al-Isti'ab" (3573), al-Baghawi in "Sharh al-Sunnah" (3704), Abu al-Qasim al-Asbahani in "al-Dala'il" (42), Ibn Asakir in "Tarikh Dimashq" (3/327, 330, 12/358) and al-Ala'i in "Itharat al-Fawa'id" (2/715), through routes from Mukram bin Muhriz with his chain.