Imam Aḥmad also transmitted it through ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd, from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, from Anas; al-Nasāʾī likewise narrated it through Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā, from Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, from Ḥumayd, from Anas, with similar wording. Ibn Ḥibbān included it in his Ṣaḥīḥ through Abū Yaʿlā, from ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād, from Muʿtamir, from Ḥumayd, from Anas, also with similar wording.

Section: The Children of Israel’s Entry into the Wilderness and the Extraordinary Events That Befell Them

We have already mentioned how the Children of Israel shrank from fighting the giants, how Allah punished them with the Wilderness, and how He decreed that they would not emerge from it for forty years. I have not found in the Scripture of the People of the Book any account of their refusal to fight the giants. Instead, it relates that Moses prepared Joshua for battle against a band of unbelievers, and that Moses, Aaron, and Hur sat atop a hill. Moses raised his staff, and whenever he held it aloft Joshua prevailed; but whenever his hand drooped from fatigue, the enemy gained the upper hand. Aaron and Hur therefore supported his hands, one on his right and the other on his left, throughout that day until sunset, and Joshua’s forces emerged victorious.

Their books also state that Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, learned of what had happened to Moses and how Allah had granted him victory over his enemy Pharaoh. He then came to Moses as a believer, bringing with him his daughter Zipporah—Moses’ wife—and their two sons, Gershom