of your Lord, or are they the ones in full control? Or do they possess a ladder on which they listen in? Then let their listener bring a clear warrant.’ (al-Tur 38) At that moment my heart nearly took flight.” (In the first recension it reads: “it was as though my heart were split open by the recitation of the Quran.”)

This ḥadith was transmitted by al-Tayālisi—and from him al-Bayhaqi, whose wording has just been cited—as well as by Aḥmad, who also gives the second recension. It comes on the authority of Shuʿbah, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, who said, “One of my brothers informed me from Abū Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim …”

Al-Ṭaḥāwī likewise recorded it through Wahb ibn Jarīr, and al-Khaṭīb in his History through Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī—both transmitting from Shuʿbah with the same chain. Al-Ḥaḍramī phrased it: “from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from his brother,” and neither of the two versions mentions the mosque. Al-Khaṭīb then remarked:

“Ghundar and others followed Shuʿbah in narrating it. Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī related it from Shuʿbah, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from one of his brothers, from Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim. Abū al-Walīd al-Tayālisi, however, differed, narrating it from Shuʿbah, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, directly from Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim. The version of Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī and those who corroborated him is the correct one.”

I say: This chain is sound, God willing. All its transmitters are trustworthy and are found in the collections of the Six. Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm’s brother is Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm, who is well-known for transmitting from Saʿd.

Al-Bukhārī also recorded the report through the route of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, who said, “They informed me …”