returning tomorrow, Allah willing.’ That answer pleased them, and the Prophet ﷺ laughed.

Muslim records this report through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, from Sufyān, in the same wording. In some copies of Muslim the Companion is named as ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr.

Al-Bukhārī also transmits it, through Ibn al-Madīnī, from Sufyān, who likewise said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr. Al-Bukhārī adds: al-Ḥumaydī said, ‘Sufyān related to us; ʿAmr related to us; he said, “I heard Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aʿmā say: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.”’

Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī said: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it, and in his version it names ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr. Abū Bakr added, ‘I later heard Ibn ʿUyaynah relate it once more, naming Ibn ʿUmar instead.’

Al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ghassān al-Ghallābī—apparently citing Ibn Maʿīn—said: ‘Abū al-ʿAbbās the poet reported both ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr and Ibn ʿUmar concerning the conquest of al-Ṭāʾif; the sound version is that it was Ibn ʿUmar.’ He further explained that Abū al-ʿAbbās is al-Sāʾib ibn Farukh, a client of Banī Kinānah.

Ibn Luhayʿah, on the authority of Abū al-Aswad from ʿUrwah, related that when the Prophet ﷺ rode off from al-Ṭāʾif with his Companions, he supplicated: ‘O Allah, guide them and spare us their burden.’

Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muqdam told me, on the authority of those who witnessed the events, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ besieged the people of al-Ṭāʾif for thirty nights, or thereabouts, after which he withdrew and returned to Madinah. Later their delegation came to him in