2703 – ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī related to us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī related to us; he said: ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; he said: Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, from Zir ibn Ḥubaysh—

2704 – And Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaʿqūb also told us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Ruwayyānī told us; he said: Bishr ibn Ādam narrated to us; he said: Abū Dāwūd narrated to us; he said: Sinān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah, from Zir ibn Ḥubaysh, who said:

Ibn Jurmuz sought permission to enter upon ʿAlī. They said, “This is the man who killed al-Zubayr.” ʿAlī replied, “By Allah, the killer of the son of Ṣafiyyah will surely enter the Fire. I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ⦗1489⦘ say, ‘Every prophet has a hawārī (close disciple), and my hawārī is al-Zubayr.’”