Muhammad ibn ‘Ajlān, and—through Abu Dāwūd—Muhammad ibn ‘Ajlān, all three narrate from ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khallād ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Mālik al-Anṣārī, who said, “My father related to me from an uncle of his who had fought at Badr.” Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, however, transmits it as: “from Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ,” recounting the same incident.

This chain is sound according to al-Bukhārī’s criteria. In the Musnad it is recorded through the route of Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr → ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā → Rifāʿah, omitting Yaḥyā ibn Khallād; this is the version preferred by al-Bayhaqī.

Shurayk ibn Abī Namr corroborated it in exactly this form—“from ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā, from his uncle Rifāʿah”—and it was produced by al-Ṭaḥāwī in Sharḥ al-Maʿānī. Al-Bayhaqī commented: “The sound recension is that of Dāwūd ibn Qays and those who agree with him.”

I say: Among those who agree with him, besides the names already mentioned, are Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah—as recorded by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, al-Bukhārī in his booklet, al-Dāramī, and al-Ḥākim (and via him al-Bayhaqī), as well as Ibn Ḥazm in al-Muḥallā. Al-Ḥākim declared: “Authentic according to the criteria of the Two Shaykhs.”

I reply: Neither ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā nor his father is narrated from by Muslim, so the chain satisfies only al-Bukhārī’s standard.

Also included among the corroborating transmitters is Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Khallād, as cited by Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Tirmidhī.