that Rabiḥ’s father—whose name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Saʿīd—was a Companion, as the apparent meaning of his words indicates: “We said on the Day of the Trench.” Yet no one has held this view. So take note. According to the correct version, Ibn Abī Ḥātim also transmitted the hadith, as stated in al-Bidāyah by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr (4/111).

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Ibn Ḥibbān (1793) transmitted it from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: Its chain of transmission is good, and its narrators are trustworthy. Al-Mundhirī indicated in al-Targhīb (2/207) that it is strengthened, and al-Suyūṭī likewise attributed it to al-Bayhaqī in his Shuʿab. It has a supporting narration from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, but it is not one to rejoice over, for it is narrated by al-Rabīʿ ibn Badr, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from him, with its attribution raised to the Prophet. Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (3/78/2), as did Ibn ʿAdī (132/2) and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (4/108). The latter said: “It is singular among the narrations of al-Aʿmash; al-Rabīʿ alone transmitted it from him.”

I say: He is abandoned, and this version has been contradicted. Al-Bazzār said in his Musnad (26—its supplementary section): “Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ related to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from al-Muʿallā al-Kindī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd,” and then cited it as a report attributed to the Companion. He further said: “Abū Kurayb related it to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in similar wording.” He said: “We know of no one who narrates it from Jābir except by this route.” Al-Haythamī said immediately afterward: