al-Umr wa al-Shayb 65

Ibn Abi al-Dunya

قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ: قَالَ الْأَصْمَعِيُّ: هَذَا الْبَيْتُ أَحْسَنُ مَا قِيلَ فِي الشَّيْبِ

The text as printed

قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ: قَالَ الْأَصْمَعِيُّ: هَذَا الْبَيْتُ أَحْسَنُ مَا قِيلَ فِي الشَّيْبِ

Rulings on it

The early critics’ verdicts on this hadith have not been extracted from their books yet: they are in their texts, and their extraction is coming.