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What is the authenticity of the hadith: "O Abu Dharr, there are four Syriacs: Adam, Seth, Enoch, and Noah," and what is the extent of the authenticity of the chains of transmission through which it is narrated, and do these chains of transmission confirm its authentication?

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This Hadith was narrated by Ibn Hibban in his Sahih, and it includes Ibrahim bin Hisham Al-Ghassani, whom a group of scholars, including Abu Hatim, Ibn Al-Jawzi, and Abu Zur'ah, described as a liar. Ibn Al-Jawzi considered it among the fabricated (Mawdu'at) Hadiths. The presence of the Hadith in Ibn Hibban's Sahih does not intercede for it, because Ibn Hibban's conditions for authentication are lenient and permissive. Ibrahim bin Hisham was the only one to narrate this Hadith.

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