(1) Reported by Abu Dawud no. 3965; al-Tirmidhi no. 1628; al-Nasai no. 3143; Ahmad, Musnad 4/113, 384 = nos. 17022, 19428; Ibn Hibban 10/ no. 4615; al-Tabarani, Fadl al-Rami no. 18; and others. It comes through the chain: Hisham – from Qatadah – from Salim b. Abi al-Jaʿd – from Maʿdan b. Abi Talhah – from ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah, who relates it at length and adds, “Whoever reaches his target with an arrow in the path of Allah has one rank in Paradise ….” The isnad is sound, and additional routes from ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah will be cited below. Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim, and others declared the hadith sahih. (2) Cited by al-Nasai, Sunan no. 3142; Ibn Abi ʿAsim, Kitab al-Jihad 2/ no. 163; and al-Tabarani, Musnad al-Shamiyyin 2/ nos. 957–958, with the chain: Safwan b. ʿAmr – from Sulaym b. ʿAmir – from Shurahbil b. al-Simt – from ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah. Hariz b. ʿUthman disagrees and transmits it as a mursal report: he narrates from Sulaym b. ʿAmir that ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah was with Shurahbil b. al-Simt, who said, “O ʿAmr …” and so forth. This version is found in ʿAbd b. Humayd, Musnad 1/299; Ahmad, Musnad 4/113; and al-Tabarani, Musnad al-Shamiyyin 2/ no. 1068. This chain is the stronger, which means that, via this route, the hadith is mursal. Abu Hatim remarked: “Sulaym b. ʿAmir did not meet ʿAmr b. ʿAbasah or al-Miqdad b. al-Aswad” (al-Marasil no. 310). Note: MSS H and T read ʿitq (“manumission”) instead of ka-ʿitq (“as the manumission of”).