Mūsā.

Abū Mūsā narrated to us: Yahyā narrated to us, from Abū ʿAjlān, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), who said: “When any of you strikes someone, let him avoid the face.”

Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah said: “Ibn ʿAjlān’s report contains no more than this.”

This means that the imam Yahyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qattān narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān, from al-Maqburī, as al-Layth and others did. He also narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, but mentioned only one of the two statements. Ibn ʿAjlān had received the hadith from both al-Maqburī and his own father. Al-Bukhārī also narrated it in his Sahīh through