Yūnus likewise narrated from al-Zuhrī: “I heard a man of Muzayna—someone who pursues knowledge and preserves it.” His version is more complete than the one before it.

ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ al-Thaqafī also reported that when the delegation of Thaqīf came to the Prophet ﷺ, he lodged them in the mosque so that their hearts might soften. They stipulated to the Prophet ﷺ that:
• they were not to be mustered for military service,
• not subjected to the tithe,
• no levy be taken from them,
• and no governor be appointed over them from outside their own people.
The Prophet replied:
“You will not be conscripted, nor tithed, nor taxed, nor will anyone from outside your tribe be placed in authority over you. Yet there is no good in a religion that contains no rukūʿ (bowing).”

Al-Tayālisī recorded the ḥadīth, and through his transmission it was also related by Abū Dāwūd, al-Bayhaqī, and Aḥmad, in the narration of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Ḥumayd, from al-Ḥasan, from ʿUthmān.

All the transmitters in this chain are trustworthy and cited by Muslim, so the isnād is sound—provided that al-Ḥasan actually heard the report from ʿUthmān. Al-Bayhaqī then remarked:

“Ashʿath also narrated it from al-Ḥasan as a mursal report, conveying part of the same meaning, and he added:
‘Someone said, “O Messenger of Allah, you have lodged them in the mosque while they are still polytheists!” He replied, “The earth itself does not become impure; it is only the son of Adam who becomes impure.”’ ”

Ibn Abī Shaybah and al-Ṭabarānī likewise transmitted the ḥadīth through al-Ḥasan from ʿUthmān, as cited in Takhrīj al-Kashshāf.

As for this mursal addition, some scholars have related it with a continuous chain. Abū Bakr al-Jaṣṣāṣ said in his Aḥkām al-Qurʾān: