and Zaʾidah was Ibn Qudāmah. He and Sufyān—namely Ibn ʿUyaynah—differed over its chain of transmission from Manṣūr—namely the Kufan Ibn al-Muʿtamir: Zaʾidah attributed it to the Companion, whereas Sufyān attributed it to the Prophet. Attribution to the Prophet is an addition from a trustworthy narrator and is therefore accepted. Unless a corroborating narrator is found to support Zaʾidah’s attribution of it to the Companion, I can only give preference to its attribution to the Prophet. It seems that al-Mundhirī alluded to this when he said: “It has been said that the correct version is attributed to the Companion.” And Allah knows best.

In al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (1/320), he attributed the hadith to Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr and al-Bayhaqī in Shuʿab al-Īmān, from ʿAbdullah—whom I think was Ibn Masʿūd. I say: It appears that this supposition was al-Suyūṭī’s, and there is no justification for it. He was certainly Ibn Masʿūd, for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd—the Nakhaʿī—is known to have narrated from him rather than from any of the other Companions named ʿAbdullah.

The attribution to the Companion then became more likely to me when I saw Hannād state in al-Zuhd (2/465/934): “Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us from al-Aʿmash, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, who said: ʿAbdullah said...” He then cited it as attributed to the Companion. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission and a strong corroboration by al-Aʿmash of Manṣūr, even though they differed concerning the narrator from Ibn Masʿūd. The former said that he was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd, whereas al-Aʿmash said that he was Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, whose name was ʿAwf ibn Mālik. There is no impediment to Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd having had two shaykhs for this report. This is supported by the fact that Zaʾidah also narrated it from al-Aʿmash in the same manner as Abū Muʿāwiyah. Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it (no. 8749). Likewise, Abū Yaḥyā al-Ḥammānī narrated it from Ḥabīb ibn Ḥassān (the original reads: Sinān) al-Asadī, who said: “I heard Abū Wāʾil say: ...”