ibn Tahman; and Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Dawud was alone in narrating it from Sa‘id.” I say: Two others corroborated him: al-Walid ibn Muslim, as recorded by al-Tahawi, and Muhammad ibn Bakkar ibn Bilal, as recorded by al-Bayhaqi.

Al-Hajjaj is Ibn al-Hajjaj al-Bahili, a trustworthy narrator among those whose reports are found in the Sahih collections; and Ibrahim ibn Tahman is likewise. This is why al-Hakim said immediately after it: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him, and it is as they said.

In al-Majma‘ (4/7), al-Haythami said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its narrators are those of the Sahih collections.” Al-Mundhiri did not come across this narration of al-Tabarani, nor that of al-Hakim, and so he said in al-Targhib (2/138): “Al-Bayhaqi narrated it with a chain of transmission that is acceptable, though its text contains something unusual.” Such was his statement! Likewise, the annotator of Mushkil al-Athar (2/68, Mu’assasah edition) did not come across this authentic narration of al-Hakim. He began his documentation by declaring its chain weak on account of Sa‘id ibn Bashir, and quoted the aforementioned statement of al-Haythami, without realizing that its chain—like that of al-Hakim—is authentic.

2903 — “Put down whatever spoils of war you have with you.”

It was recorded by al-Hakim (3/504), al-Tabarani in al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir (1/285–286/909) and al-Awsat (2/71/1/6173), and Abu Nu‘aym in al-Ma‘rifah (1/79/1), through the route of Abu Mus‘ab: Yahya ibn ‘Imran ibn ‘Uthman narrated to us from his grandfather