370 - Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Zanjawayh al-Qattan al-Qazwini informed us: Sulayman ibn Yazid al-Muaddil narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn Ayyub al-Qazwini narrated to us; Ishaq—namely Abu Dawud al-Sharani—narrated to us; al-Musaffa, meaning Muhammad, narrated to us, from Amr ibn Jumay, from Maymun ibn Mihran, from Ibn Abbas, who said: When Ali appointed the two arbiters, the Kharijites said to him, “Have you appointed two men as arbiters?” He replied, “I did not appoint any created being as arbiter; rather, I appointed the Quran.”
371 - Ahmad ibn Muhammad also informed us: Umar ibn Ahmad informed us; Muhammad ibn Makhlad ibn Hafs narrated to us, from Makhlad ibn Khalid, who said ⦗255⦘: Ibrahim ibn Rashid narrated to us; al-Fadl ibn Abd Allah al-Farisi narrated to us, from Amr ibn Jumay Abu al-Mundhir, from Maymun ibn Mihran, from Ibn Abbas: They said to Ali—and he mentioned something similar.
372 - Abd al-Rahman cited it, saying: Muhammad ibn Hajjaj al-Hadrami al-Misri narrated to us; Mualla ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Qaqa narrated to us; Utbah ibn al-Sakan al-Ghazzari narrated to us; al-Faraj ibn Yazid al-Kalai said: On the day of Siffin, they said to Ali, “You have appointed a disbeliever or a hypocrite as arbiter.” He replied, “I did not appoint any created being as arbiter; I appointed none but the Quran.”