behind them, while the third turned away and left. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had finished, he said:

“Shall I tell you about these three men?”
They replied, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.”
He said, “As for one of them, he sought refuge with Allah, and Allah sheltered him. The second felt shy, so Allah dealt with him in kind. The third turned away, so Allah turned away from him.”

This ḥadith is narrated by Abū Wāqid al-Laythī (may Allah be pleased with him).

Al-Bukhārī records it—this wording comes from one of his narrations—as do Muslim and al-Tirmidhī, all three transmitting it from Mālik, from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, from Abū Murrah, the freedman of ʿAqīl ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ also attributes it to al-Nasāʾī and remarks, “It is in the Muwaṭṭaʾ.”

I add: I have not located it in either of those two works at present.

The first additional wording belongs to al-Tirmidhī; it is likewise found in al-Nasāʾī and in most recensions of the Muwaṭṭaʾ, as stated in Fatḥ.

Aḥmad likewise records it through the route of Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr—“Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah related it to me”—with a similar text that contains the other supplementary phrase.