= He asked them: “Will you answer me truthfully if I question you about something?” They replied: “Yes.” He said: “Did you put poison in this sheep?” They answered: “Yes.” He then asked: “What made you do that?” They said: “We wanted—if you were a liar—to be rid of you; but if you were a prophet the poison would not harm you.” The report is found in Sunan Abi Dawud, no. 4509 (Book of Blood-Money, chapter: “If someone gives a man poison to drink or feeds it to him and he dies, is he executed?”) and in Al-Darimi 1/33–34. For additional versions see Ibn Kathir, Al-Sirah, 3/394–401. * Other sources include: Musnad Ahmad 5/284; 6/7; Ibn Saad, Al-Tabaqat al-Kubra 3/2/142; Khalifah, Al-Tabaqat p. 97 and Tarikh pp. 117, 135; Al-Bukhari, Al-Tarikh al-Kabir 4/44 and Al-Tarikh al-Saghir 1/39; Ibn Qutaybah, Al-Maʿarif p. 259; Ibn Abi Hatim, Al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 4/88; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlama al-Amsar no. 20; Al-Istibsar 93–97; Al-Istiiʿab 4/152; Ibn ʿAsakir 7/56/1; Usud al-Ghabah 2/356; Al-Baghawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ 1/212-213; Al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal p. 474; Al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam 1/15 and Tarikh al-Islam 1/379; idem, Al-ʿIbar 1/19; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/475 and Al-Isabah 4/152; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal p. 134; Kanz al-ʿUmmal 13/404; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/28; Tahdhib Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir 6/86-93. (1) The base manuscript reads “Haram,” but we have corrected it on the authority of Ibn Hisham, Usud al-Ghabah, Ibn Saad, and Al-Qamus. Al-Hakim (3/252) records the corrected wording, and it also appears in Ibn Saad, 3/2/143. (2) See Sunan Abi Dawud, nos. 1474, 1679, 1681; the narration is also found in Al-Sunan al-Kubra under the section on bequests.