to a man, whereupon the man began to tremble. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him, “Calm yourself; I am not a king. I am only the son of a woman from Quraysh who used to eat dried meat.” Ibn al-Jawzi narrated it through several chains, some of them uninterrupted, on the authority of Ibn Masʿūd. He commented, “It is also reported with a continuous chain.” Yet the correct assessment is that it is mursal, as mentioned earlier.