than a whole herd of red camels: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ married his daughter to him, and she bore children for him; he closed every door that opened into the mosque except his, and on the day of Khaybar he entrusted the banner to him.”

Ahmad transmits the report through Hishām ibn Saʿd, from ʿAmr ibn Usayd, from Ibn ʿUmar.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ rules the chain sound (ḥasan).

I add: its narrators are the trustworthy authorities cited by the two Ṣaḥīḥs, with the sole exception of Hishām ibn Saʿd—he is found only in Muslim, and, while truthful, he is prone to slips, as Ibn Ḥajar states in al-Taqrīb. ʿAmr ibn Usayd is the same person as ʿAmr ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Usayd, as recorded in the biographical works.

There are further reports on the same subject from ʿAlī himself, Jābir ibn Samura, and Ibn ʿAbbās, but their isnāds are too feeble to cite, so we have confined ourselves to those already mentioned.

Ibn ʿUmar’s report also has another route, narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsat and likewise by al-Nasāʾī—as quoted in Fatḥ al-Bārī—through al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿArār. He said: “So I asked Ibn ʿUmar, ‘Tell me about ʿAlī and ʿUthmān…,’” and he related the story, in which it appears that “its transmitters are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ except al-ʿAlāʾ, whom Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn and others declared reliable.”

These narrations strengthen one another; each individual chain is suitable for argument, let alone when considered together. Nevertheless, Ibn al-Jawzī listed this ḥadith in al-Mawḍūʿāt, citing only the versions transmitted from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, Zayd ibn Arqam, and Ibn ʿUmar.