Al-Ḥumaydī limits al-Ḥimyarī’s reports from Abū Hurayrah in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections. Why do numerous reports of al-Zuhrī not refute this count?

Historical Examples of Muʿanʿan Transmission and the Conclusion of Muslim’s Introduction

• Because al-Ḥimyarī and Ḥumayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī are different narrators, and the claim concerns a specified route and collections
• Because Nawawī declares every report of al-Zuhrī fabricated
• Because al-Ḥumaydī denied the existence of every narrator named Ḥumayd in all hadith books
• Because it is historically impossible for any narrator named Ḥumayd to transmit from Abū Hurayrah