al-Thawrī, from him. He said: “It meets the criteria of both compilers, for both relied on al-Minhāl ibn ‘Amr as an authority.” He said: Ibn Jarīr also narrated from Shu‘bah, from Abū Ishāq, from al-Barā’, who said:

“The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, mentioned the believer and the disbeliever.”

He then related part of the hadith concerning the grave. Imam Ahmad also narrated the hadith in full in his Musnad, from ‘Abd al-Razzāq, who said: Ma‘mar narrated to us, from Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, from al-Minhāl ibn ‘Amr.

He said: Abū Khālid al-Dālānī, ‘Amr ibn Qays al-Mulā’ī, and al-Hasan ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh al-Nakha‘ī likewise narrated it from al-Minhāl. Shu‘ayb ibn Safwān narrated it from Yūnus ibn Khabbāb, giving the chain as follows: from al-Minhāl, from Zādhān, from Abū al-Bakhtarī, who said: “I heard al-Barā’.” He said: This is an error on Shu‘ayb’s part, for Ma‘mar, Mahdī ibn Maymūn, and ‘Abbād ibn ‘Abbād narrated it from Yūnus al-Tāmir.

The hadith scholar Abū Nu‘aym al-Asbahānī said: As for the hadith of al-Barā’, narrated by al-Minhāl ibn ‘Amr from Zādhān, from al-Barā’, it is a well-known hadith transmitted from al-Minhāl by a great many narrators. ‘Adī ibn Thābit, Muhammad ibn ‘Uqbah, and others narrated it from al-Barā’, while ‘Atā’ ibn al-Sā’ib narrated it from Zādhān.

He said: The transmitters of reports unanimously recognize this hadith as well known and widely transmitted. The hadith scholar Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mandah said: This hadith has a connected, well-known chain of transmission, and a number of narrators related it from al-Barā’.

Imam Ahmad said in al-Musnad: Abū Mu‘āwiyah narrated to us: al-A‘mash narrated to us, from al-Minhāl ibn ‘Amr, from Zādhān:

“From al-Barā’ ibn ‘Āzib—may Allah be pleased with them both—who said: ‘We went out