and he was unmarried. Salih said: “I did this only because of the dowry Ibn ʿUmar would give her; for he is entitled from my wealth to the equivalent of what he gave her.”

Ahmad recorded it (2/57) through Yazid ibn Abi Habib, from Ibrahim ibn Salih—Salih being the name by which Nuʿaym ibn al-Nammam was known, having been named so by the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him—that ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar informed him of it. Its narrators are trustworthy and were used by the six canonical collections, apart from Ibrahim ibn Salih, who narrated it from Ibn ʿUmar. Al-Husayni said: “Yazid ibn Abi Habib narrated from him; there is some question concerning him.”

Al-Hafiz said in al-Tasjil: “I say: Along with Ahmad, al-Harith recorded the hadith in his Musnad, as did al-Tahawi, Ibn al-Sakan in his work on the Companions, and Ibn al-Muqri in his Fawaʾid, all through al-Layth from the aforementioned Ibrahim. Ibn Hibban mentioned him in the third rank of trustworthy transmitters, saying: ‘Ibrahim ibn Salih ibn ʿAbdullah, a shaykh who narrates mursal reports; Ibn Abi Habib narrated from him.’”

I say: Al-Haythami said (4/279): “Ahmad narrated it, and it is mursal; its narrators are trustworthy.” Al-Hafiz then said: “I mentioned in my book on the Companions that al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar said that this Ibrahim was born during the lifetime of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. What is meant by deeming his report from Ibn ʿUmar mursal is that he did not live to witness the incident which Yazid ibn Abi Habib narrated from Ibn ʿUmar. This occurred during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, when Ibrahim was a child, and the wording of the hadith does not state that Ibn ʿUmar informed him of it. As for his having met Ibn ʿUmar, there is no doubt about that. I found him mentioned among those who witnessed Ibn ʿUmar’s endowment of his land. He died before Ibn ʿUmar, as al-Bukhari and those who followed him stated: he was killed at the Battle of al-Harrah. Ibn ʿUmar lived for approximately ten years after the Battle of al-Harrah.”

I say: Ibn ʿUmar was involved in another incident, different from this one, and there is no harm in mentioning it because of the benefit it contains. Ibn ʿUmar said: “ʿUthman ibn Mazʿun died and left behind a daughter from Khawlah bint Hakim ibn Umayyah ibn al-Harithah ibn al-Awqas. He entrusted her to his brother Qudamah ibn Mazʿun”—ʿAbdullah said: “They were both my maternal uncles”—“and I proposed to Qudamah ibn Mazʿun for ʿUthman ibn Mazʿun’s daughter, and he gave her to me in marriage. Then al-Mughirah ibn Shuʿbah went in to her mother and enticed her with—