(1) No major scholar, to my knowledge, has authenticated this report except Ibn Hazm. The error was made by Hammam b. Yahya al-‘Awdi in his transmission from Qatada: he recorded the phrase “yudammā” instead of the correct “yusammā.” This version appears in Musnad Aḥmad (5/7, 17, 22), al-Dārimī (1975), and Abū Dāwūd (2837), all via ‘Affān b. Muslim, Bahz b. Asad al-‘Ami, and Ḥafṣ b. ‘Umar al-Ghamri—reliable transmitters—each reporting from Hammam with “yudammā” in place of “yusammā.” By contrast, three of Qatada’s reliable companions—Abān b. Yazīd al-‘Aṭṭār, Sa‘īd b. Abī ‘Arūbah, and Shu‘bah b. al-Ḥajjāj—narrated the correct “yusammā.” Abān’s report is in Aḥmad (5/17), Shu‘bah’s also in Aḥmad; Sa‘īd—praised by Imams Ibn Ma‘īn, al-Tayālisī, Abū Ḥātim, and Abu Zar‘ah al-Rāzī as among the most dependable narrators of Qatada—is in Aḥmad (5/12), Abū Dāwūd (2838), al-Tirmidhī (1522), Ibn Mājah (3165), and al-Nasā’ī (7/166). Likewise, others have narrated it from al-Ḥasan in the group transmission: Ismā‘īl b. Muslim al-Makkī—though weak—(al-Tirmidhī 1522), and Iyyās b. Daghfal and Ash‘ath b. ‘Abd al-Malik al-Ḥumrānī, both reliable. Abū Dāwūd commented on Hammam’s version: “Hammam erred here; it is his confusion. All say ‘yusammā,’ and Hammam said ‘yudammā.’ This is not to be accepted.” He then added after Sa‘īd’s hadith from Qatada: “‘Yusammā’ is more sound, as reported by Salam b. Abī Muṭī‘ from Qatada and by Iyyās b. Daghfal and Ash‘ath from al-Ḥasan.” Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr remarked: “It is not plausible that Hammam alone preserved this wording; if he did, it must be an abrogated form.” (Reported by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar in al-Fatḥ, commentary on the hadith of ‘aqīqah, no. 5472). I add: This practice belonged to the pre-Islamic period and has been abrogated, as indicated by a group of hadiths—e.g. in Ibn Ḥibbān (5308), Ibn Mājah (3166), Abū Dāwūd (2843), al-Ḥākim (238), etc. I have elaborated on this to prevent anyone from being misled into acting upon it or deriving rulings from it. (Bishr) (2) Musnad Aḥmad, vol. 2, pp. 274–275. (3) Al-Bukhārī, no. 4548, in his Tafsīr; Muslim, no. 2366, in his Book of the Prophets. (4) His Tafsīr, vol. 3, p. 161. (5) This phrase appears as a marginal addition in both the B and T manuscripts; it is also found in al-Ṭabarī’s Tafsīr. (6) In the T manuscript it reads “from ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Zubaydī,” which is clearly erroneous, as no such narrator is known from al-Zuhrī. The correct name is Muḥammad b. al-Walīd al-Zubaydī, whose report from al-Zuhrī is recorded in both Sahīhs (Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, 26/430) and in al-Ṭabarī’s Tafsīr, as demonstrated above. (7) Musnad Aḥmad, vol. 2, p. 288.