Ismāʿīl—meaning Ibn Abī Khālid—from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾidh, a man from the people of Syria, who said: ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī set out for al-Aqsa Mosque to pray there. Some people followed him, and he asked, “What has brought you here?” They replied, “You accompanied the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, so we wished to travel with you and greet you.” He said, “Dismount and pray.” So they dismounted, and he prayed, and they prayed with him. When he concluded the prayer, he said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: ‘There is no servant who meets Allah without associating anything with Him and without having stained himself with unlawfully shed blood, except that he will enter through whichever gates of Paradise he wishes.’”

This is a strong corroboration from Yazīd ibn Hārūn, the trustworthy hadith master, of Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ. Al-Qāsim ibn al-Walīd al-Hamdānī, however, differed from them in its chain of transmission, saying: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid narrated to us, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, from Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, may Allah be pleased with him, as a report attributed to the Prophet, with wording similar to that of Yazīd. Al-Ḥākim recorded it and indicated that the first version is the weightier one. Al-Dhahabī followed him, saying: “I say: The first is more authentic.” This is because al-Qāsim ibn al-Walīd contradicted Wakīʿ and Yazīd, while he was inferior to them in retention and precision. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said of him: “Truthful, though he reports odd narrations.”

Al-Bukhārī also recorded the hadith in the Book of Knowledge, on the authority of Anas as a report attributed to the Prophet, with this wording but without the words, “without having stained himself with unlawfully shed blood.” See Mukhtaṣar al-Bukhārī (85). Aḥmad likewise narrated it (2/361–362 and 421–422) on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, with an additional wording; and Aḥmad also narrated it (4/260 and 5/285) on the authority of Salamah ibn Nuʿaym, adding: