1885 – Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd narrated to us; he said: ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mubashshir narrated to us; he said: Aḥmad b. Sinān narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated to us; he said: ⦗1098⦘ Sufyān narrated to us, from Zubayd. Ḥ.

1886 – And Mahdī b. Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Bishr narrated to us; he said: Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, from Saʿīd, narrated to us; he said: Zubayd related to me, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh, from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): “Reviling a Muslim is sinful defiance, and fighting him is disbelief.”

I asked Abū Wāʾil, “Did you hear this directly from ʿAbd Allāh, conveying it from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?” He replied, “Yes.”