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I will add a point to my inquiry to make the things more clear so that if the brothers want to add some further material to the explanation , things will get contextualized for them. There are certain Salafi Muhaditheen who have deemed this Hadith authentic. The prominent names are that of Shaykh Albani ra and Allama Ahmad Shakir ra. A few contemporary Salafi scholars have deemed it dhaeef. The most prominent among them is Hafiz Zubair Alizai. His main argument is that Sufyan Thawri ra is Mudalis and he is reporting with a'n so tadlees is established and so the Hadith is not authentic. A further inquiry into this issue reveals the fact that Hafiz Zubair Alizai has rejected the Tabqaat of mudaliseen established by Imam Ibn Hajjar while Shaykh Albani used to believe in the validity of Ibn Hajjar's Tabqaat ul Mudaliseen so did Allama Ahmad Shakir. I am looking for a detailed explanation of this hadith in the context of Tabqaat ul mudaliseen.