It was likewise transmitted by Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn from Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl; by Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī in his Musnad; and by ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, who took it from Abū Yaʿlā’s teacher, Ibn Abī Shaybah.

In some chains it is worded as follows:

“If you claim that these people are better than you, then they worshipped idols; but if you claim that you are better than they are, then speak so that we may hear.”

Ibn Isḥāq also narrated it, saying: “Yazīd ibn Ziyād, a client of Banū Hāshim, related to me from …”