1139 — Ahmad ibn Ubayd informed us: Ali ibn Abdullah ibn Mubashshir informed us: Ahmad ibn al-Miqdam related to us: Hammad ibn Zayd related to us.
1140 — And Ubaydullah ibn Ahmad informed us: Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Ala informed us: Abu al-Ashath related to us: Hammad ibn Zayd related to us: Qatan ibn Kab related to us: I heard a man from Banu Ijl, known as So-and-so ibn Zura'ah, narrating from his father, who said: “I saw Subaygh ibn Isl in Basra, like a mangy camel. He would come to the study circles, and whenever he sat with a circle, they would rise and leave him. If he sat with people who did not know him, the members of the other circle would call out to them, ‘By the binding order of the Commander of the Believers!’” Both wordings are identical.