Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī also provided a connected isnād from another route, saying:

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan the judge informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Maṭar narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Sawār al-Hāshimī al-Kūfī narrated to us; Manjāb ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ narrated to us; my father narrated to me, from Yazīd al-Faqīr, from his father, who said:

I also heard al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah relate to my father, from Abū Ḥarb ibn Abī al-Aswad al-Duʾalī, from his father—the two reports merging together—who said:

When ʿAlī and his men drew near to Ṭalḥah and al-Zubayr and the battle-lines closed in on one another, ʿAlī rode out on the mule of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and called, “Bring me al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām; it is I, ʿAlī.” Al-Zubayr was summoned and advanced until the necks of their mounts were side by side.

ʿAlī said, “O Zubayr, I adjure you by Allah: do you remember the day when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by you at such-and-such a place and said:

‘O Zubayr, do you love ʿAlī?’

You answered, ‘Why should I not love my cousin on my mother’s side, my cousin on my father’s side, and the one who shares my faith?’ He then said:

‘O ʿAlī, do you love him?’

I replied, ‘O Messenger of Allah, why should I not love my aunt’s son who shares my faith?’ He thereupon declared:

‘O Zubayr, by Allah, you will indeed fight him while you are the one in the wrong.’”

Al-Zubayr said, “Indeed. By Allah, I had forgotten that ever since I heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; I have only now remembered it. By Allah, I will not fight you.” He then turned his mount around and began cutting back through the ranks.

His son ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr confronted him and asked, “What is the matter?” He answered, “ʿAlī has reminded me of a report I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: ‘You will fight him while you are in the wrong,’ so I will not fight him.”

ʿAbd Allāh said, “Did you come out to fight? You only came to reconcile the people, and Allah will set this affair right.” Al-Zubayr replied, “I have sworn an oath not to fight him.” ʿAbd Allāh suggested, “Then manumit your slave Jirjis and stay until you bring about reconciliation among the people.” So al-Zubayr freed his slave and remained, but when disorder broke out he mounted his horse and left.(1)

Al-Bayhaqī further said: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ informed us; Imām Abū al-Walīd narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Qaṭan ibn Bashīr narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Raqāshī narrated to us; my grandfather—ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muslim—narrated to us, from Abū Jarw al-Māzinī, who said:

I heard ʿAlī and al-Zubayr, while ʿAlī was saying to him, “I adjure you (2) by Allah, O Zubayr! Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘You will fight me (3) while you are unjust toward me?’” He replied, “Yes, but I had forgotten (4).” This report is as unusual as the one that precedes it.

Al-Bayhaqī has also transmitted, through Hudhayl ibn Bilāl—who is weak—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Masʿūd al-ʿAbdī, from