with similar wording, but he inserted his father Mālik between ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Surāqah. Aḥmad also recorded it, and all its narrators are among al-Bukhārī’s narrators. He then recorded it through the route of Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from Surāqah ibn Mālik, with the same report. Its chain of transmission is authentic according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Ibn Ḥibbān (860) also recorded it through Ibn Wahb: Yūnus narrated to us from Ibn Shihāb, from Maḥmūd ibn al-Rabīʿ, that Surāqah ibn Mālik said—and he mentioned it. Its chain of transmission is likewise authentic. Al-Zuhrī was an authoritative imam and a meticulous hadith memorizer; thus, it is not surprising that he should have had several shaykhs for this hadith, as is clear to those engaged in this noble science.

The hadith also has a corroborating report through Usāmah, to whom ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb related, from his father, from his grandfather, that “a man came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said …” and he mentioned it. Aḥmad recorded it (2/222), and its chain is good. The man mentioned appears to have been Surāqah ibn Mālik. And Allah knows best.

2153 — “The warrior has his reward, and the one who commissions him has his own reward as well as the reward of the warrior.”

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/396—Tāziyyah), al-Ṭaḥāwī in al-Mushkil (4/272), Abū ʿAwānah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (21/1), and Aḥmad (2/174), through Ibn Shafīʿ, from Shafīʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, as a hadith attributed to the Prophet. Through this same route, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī recorded it in al-Laṭāʾif (66/1), from al-Ṭabarānī and others. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; all its narrators are trustworthy.