Al-Bayhaqi also related it through Muʿammar, from Yaḥyā, and Abū Dāwūd remarked, “No one mentions the words, ‘that I have come out,’ except Muʿammar.”

I reply: On the contrary, others have recorded the same wording. Al-Walīd ibn Muslim transmitted it from Shaybān, from Yaḥyā with this addition, and Muslim included it in his Ṣaḥīḥ. After citing the report through Muʿammar, al-Bayhaqī said: “Al-Walīd ibn Muslim likewise narrated it from Shaybān, from Yaḥyā with the words: ‘…until you see that I have come out.’ Al-Ḥajjāj al-Ṣawwāf narrated it in the same way from Yaḥyā, as comes through Muḥammad ibn Bashʿar from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd on his authority. Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it from Muʿammar, Abū Nuʿaym from Shaybān, and ʿUbaydullāh ibn Saʿīd from Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān from al-Ḥajjāj, all without the phrase, ‘that I have come out.’”

As for the wording some jurists cite—“until you see me standing in the row”—we have not found any trace of it.

In short, this additional clause is mentioned by some transmitters and omitted by others; those who mention it are trustworthy. Because it is an informative addition, it must be accepted—the one who affirms has precedence over the one who negates, and the one who knows is a proof against the one who does not.

The second additional clause is reported by ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak and Shaybān together, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr.