both of them said: “Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Baḥrānī narrated to us; Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī informed us; Abū ʿAmr al-Sadūsī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, told me; ʿUthmān ibn Abī Sulaymān transmitted to me from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr, from Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, who said:

‘I arrived in Madinah the first time I ever entered it while I was still not a Muslim. Heavy drowsiness overtook me, so I lay down in the mosque. I was suddenly startled by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting during the sunset prayer, and he was reciting: ﴾By the Mount, and a Book inscribed﴿ (al-Ṭūr 1–2). I uttered istirjāʿ (saying, “To Allah we belong and to Him we return”) and left the mosque, and that was the very first moment when Islam entered my heart.’”

This chain of transmission is sound; all its narrators are trustworthy men cited by Muslim, apart from al-Ṭabarānī’s two shaykhs, for whom I have found no biographical entry.

Abū ʿAmr al-Sadūsī is Saʿīd ibn Salamah ibn Abī al-Ḥisām al-ʿAdawī.

There is also, on this topic, a report from Abū Hurayrah who said:

“The Jews came to the Prophet ﷺ while he was sitting in the mosque among his Companions and said, ‘O Abū al-Qāsim, concerning a man and a woman who have committed fornication among us…’”

Abū Dāwūd recorded it, and through his route al-Bayhaqī, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī: “A man of Muzayna narrated to us while we were with Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib,” from him. Al-Mundhirī commented, “The man of Muzayna is unknown.”

I add: Abū Dāwūd also transmitted the report through the route of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq.