There are two individuals named al-Qāsim ibn Bahrām.

The first is al-Qāsim ibn Bahrām al-Asadī al-Wāsiṭī, nicknamed al-Aʿraj, whose family originally came from Isfahān. Al-Nasāʾī narrated from him—through Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās—the full, lengthy ḥadīth of al-Futūn (1). Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, Abū Dāwūd, and Ibn Ḥibbān all declared him trustworthy.

The second is al-Qāsim ibn Bahrām Abū Hamdān (2), the judge of Hīt. Ibn Maʿīn said of him, “He was a liar.” In sum, the ḥadīth reported through this chain is not established and must not deceive anyone.

What is truly astonishing is that the ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir—despite his eminent rank and his expertise in ḥadīth criticism surpassing that of his contemporaries, indeed of many who preceded him by generations—includes in his History numerous reports of this caliber, yet neither clarifies their status nor even hints at it, overtly or subtly. Such a procedure is open to objection. Allah knows best.

Among them, may Allah be pleased with him, is al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah al-Thaqafī. His biography has already appeared among those Companions—other than freedmen—who served the Prophet ﷺ, and it was mentioned that he stood as the sword-bearer beside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Ibn ʿAsākir (5), through his chain from ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb by the isnād cited earlier more than once, relates that al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah was the one who wrote the deed granting Huṣayn ibn Naḍlah al-Asadī the land allotment that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ bestowed on him by His command.

These, then, are the scribes who wrote in his presence—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him.

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Ibn ʿAsākir (6) also counts among his trusted confidants Abū ʿUbaydah ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Jarrāḥ al-Qurashī al-Fihrī—one of the ten Companions promised Paradise—along with ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī.

I say (7): As for Abū ʿUbaydah, al-Bukhārī (8) transmits—through Abū Qilābah, from Anas—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: