(1) Al-Tirmidhi records the report (no. 3013) in the section on Qurʾanic exegesis, chapter “And from Surah Al-ʿImran”; Ibn Majah cites it twice: in the Introduction (no. 190, “What the Jahmiyyah rejected”) and in the Book of Jihad (no. 2800, “The merit of martyrdom in the path of Allah”). Al-Tirmidhi graded it hasan, and his judgment is sound. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, al-Istiyab 6/334, attributes the same isnad to Baqi b. Makhlad through Dahim, from Musa b. Ibrahim. Al-Hakim declared it sahih (3/204) and al-Dhahabi concurred. The hadith of ʿAʾishah is reported by al-Hakim (3/203) through Fayd b. Wathiq – Abu ʿAmarah al-Ansari – Ibn Shihab – ʿUrwah – ʿAʾishah, and he ruled it sahih. Al-Dhahabi objects: “Fayd is a liar.” Yet, in his Mizan al-Iʿtidal, after quoting Ibn Maʿin’s verdict “a wicked liar,” he adds: “Abu Zurʿah and Abu Hatim narrated from him, and—Allah willing—his reports are acceptable.” (2) For the documentation see p. 184, note (2). The phrase “maʿ ashab” (“together with his companions”) has dropped out of the printed text. Faḥṣ al-jabal denotes the mountain’s foot and the plain that stretches from it; compare Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh 18/154/A. (*) Principal biographical references: Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat 7/2/127; Nasab Quraysh 125–126; Khalifah, Tabaqat 10 and Tarikh 119, 138; al-Bukhari, Tarikh al-kabir 8/317 and Tarikh al-saghir 1/41, 44, 45, 52; Ibn Qutaybah, Maʿarif 345; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Istiyab 11/69; Ibn ʿAsakir 18/154/1; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-ghabah 5/491; an-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-asmaʾ 2/162; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal no. 1533; al-Dhahabi, Duwal al-Islam 1/16 and ʿIbar 1/15, 22, 23; al-Haythami, Majmaʿ az-zawaʾid 9/412; al-Fasi, ʿAqd ath-thamin 7/462-463; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib 11/332 and al-Isabah 10/348; Khalasat tadhhib al-kamal 432; Ibn al-ʿImad, Shadharat adh-dhahab 1/24.