The first is through the narration of al-Layth, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Ibn ʿAbbās. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (1219) and by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (1/185/2/3407), through Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl, from him. Al-Ṭabarānī said: “No one narrated it from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr except Layth; Muḥammad alone narrated it.” I say: He is trustworthy, as are all its other narrators, apart from Layth—who is Ibn Abī Sulaym al-Ḥimṣī—and he is weak.

The other route is narrated by al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, with the same wording. A group narrated it from al-Zuhrī. The first was Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (1/30/2/494, according to my numbering) through al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār; and Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in Akhbār Iṣfahān (2/348) through Abū Isḥāq ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Fulayḥ al-Muqriʾ and Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Khayyāṭ—all three from Sufyān, with the same wording. Al-Ṭabarānī said: “No one narrated it from Sufyān, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh, except al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār!” This is what he said, but Abū Nuʿaym’s two routes disprove it. This escaped al-Mundhirī, who said in al-Targhīb (3/130): “Al-Bazzār and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it through chains of transmission whose narrators in one of them are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ, except al-Zubayr ibn”