and those granted amnesty from Quraysh, and the emancipated slaves of Thaqif, are allies of one another in this world and the Hereafter.”

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Kabir (1/232/2): Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz narrated to us; Abu Hudhayfah informed us; Sufyan informed us, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Abu Wa'il, from Jarir, who attributed it to the Prophet.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of al-Bukhari, apart from Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz, who is trustworthy; he is the hadith master al-Baghawi.

It was also narrated by Abu Ya'la (241/2), Ibn Hibban (2287), al-Tabarani (1/233/1 and 3/76/2), Ibn 'Adi (158/1), Ibn Makhlad in al-Muntaqa min Ahadithihi (2/87–88), and al-Muzaffar Abu Sa'id in Fawa'id Muntaqah (131/2), through two routes from 'Asim, from Abu Wa'il, with the same wording. This is a good chain of transmission.

Al-Tabarani then narrated it (233/2), in abbreviated form, from al-Hajjaj, from al-Hakam, from Abu Wa'il, with the same wording. Al-Hajjaj is Ibn Artah: he was trustworthy, but practised tadlis and narrated it using the ambiguous “from” formula.

Another route: Ibn Wahb narrated it in al-Jami' (p. 5), as did al-Tabarani (1/243/2) and Abu Nu'aym in Akhbar Isfahan (1/145–146 and 2/304), from al-Thawri, from al-A'mash, from Musa ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hilal, from Jarir, with the same wording, adding: “and the Ansar.”

Sharik contradicted him, saying: from al-A'mash, from Tamim ibn Salamah, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hilal, with the same wording. However, Sharik had poor retention.

The hadith also has a corroborating report from Jabir, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording. Ibrahim ibn Tahman narrated it in al-Mashyakhah (250), but its chain contains al-Hasan ibn 'Umarah, who is abandoned.