It was recorded by the two Shaykhs (1) through Hudbah. Muslim and al-Tirmidhī likewise transmitted it through Qutaybah, and we have matched them with an even higher chain of transmission. I also possess the report of Ibn al-Jaʿd from Shuʿbah, and of Shaybān from Qatādah, on reciting the basmalah inaudibly; I have written it under the accounts of Shuʿbah.

The Qurʾānic recitation master Shaykh ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān—the senior scholar of Nablus—and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassūlī of Damascus told us:

Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Abū al-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Bundār informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Ṭālūt ibn ʿAbbād narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us—from Qatādah, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Bakrah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When two Muslims confront one another with their swords, both the killer and the one killed are in the Fire.” (2)

Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Ḥalabī—by way of a reading—told us on the authority of ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Fuḍaylī informed us; Muḥallim ibn Ismāʿīl Abū Muḍar al-Ḍabbī informed us; the judge al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad informed us; he said:

Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Thaqafī informed us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us—from Qatādah, from Anas—who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “No Muslim plants a tree or sows a crop, and then a bird, a human being, or an animal eats from it, except that it is…"