5 – Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, from Ibn Sīrīn, from him.
Recorded by Muslim and Aḥmad.

6 – Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Thābit, from Abū Rāfiʿ, from him; this version contains the definition of ḥadath.
Recorded by Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, and Aḥmad.

7 – Ibn Shihāb, from Ibn Hurmu z, from him.
Recorded by Muslim and Aḥmad.

8 – Abū Salamah, from him.
Recorded by al-Nasāʾī, al-Dārimī, al-Ṭayālisī, and Aḥmad; it is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs. Mālik also recorded it.

9 – Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from him.
Recorded by Aḥmad. All the transmitters are reliable, though Ibn Isḥāq relates it with ʿanʿanah (without explicitly stating he heard it).

10 – Kathīr ibn Zayd, from al-Walīd ibn Rabāḥ, from him.
Recorded by Aḥmad, and its chain is sound (ḥasan).

11 – Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd said: “Saʿīd ibn al-Mahdī related to us, from his father, from him.”
Recorded by al-Ṭayālisī.