scholars such as ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and others, from al-Rabī‘ ibn Anas, from Abū al-‘Āliyah, from Ubayy ibn Ka‘b. It was also narrated with its chain of transmission by most of the leading scholars who compiled Quranic commentaries, as was the practice of the leading scholars of the early generations, such as Ibn Jurayj, Ma‘mar, Wakī‘, Hushaym, Ibn al-Mubārak, ‘Abd al-Razzāq, and Imam Ahmad