Hindiyyah edition), al-Ḥākim (2/124), and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (25/1–2)—and, on his authority, al-ʿAsqalānī in Takhrīj al-Mukhtaṣar (folio 237/1)—as well as al-Bazzār in al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār (2/301), through several routes from Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Tammār, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, who said: I heard ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ relate from his father: When Saʿd ibn Muʿādh ruled concerning Banū Qurayẓah that those upon whom the razor had passed were to be killed, and that their property and offspring were to be divided, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then cited it.

Al-ʿAsqalānī said: “This is a good hadith. Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Tammār was a Medinan, truthful narrator. He was contradicted by ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who narrated it from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from his father, from his grandfather. Both were contradicted by Shuʿbah—who had a stronger memory than either of them—who narrated it from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī. Through the route of Shuʿbah, it was recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, and its wording at the end is: ‘You have indeed passed judgment on them according to the judgment of the Sovereign.’ He did not mention what follows it.”

I say: However, the additional wording to which he referred—which affirms Allah’s aboveness—has two mursal corroborating reports, which I cited in Mukhtaṣar al-ʿUluww (87/15). It seems that this is why al-Dhahabī graded it authentic in Talkhīṣ al-Mustadrak, and also in al-ʿUluww. The first mursal report was narrated by Ibn Isḥāq in Sīrat Ibn Hishām (3/259): ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah related to me from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr ibn Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, from ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ al-Laythī, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to Saʿd: “You have indeed passed judgment on them by Allah’s judgment from above seven heavens.”

This is a good chain of transmission and therefore a strong corroboration of the connected report. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Its narrators are trustworthy. Arqiʿah is the plural of raqīʿ—with qāf and ʿayn—and is one of the names for heaven.”