al-Mīzān as well, but there the father’s name has been corrupted to “Bāriq,” which I think is a printing error. And Allah knows best. Al-Bayhaqī also transmitted it with a connected chain from him in al-Shuʿab (no. 4247), by way of Abū ʿAbd Allāh—namely, al-Ḥākim. It is not found in al-Mustadrak, so it apparently occurs in his work al-Tārīkh. Al-Bayhaqī then said: “This is how it appears in my book: ‘Jābir ibn [Abī] Sabrah.’ Abū Muṣʿab Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī likewise narrated it from his father, from Ibn ʿAjlān … and it is in the seventy-second part of al-Tārīkh.” He seemingly means the history of his shaykh, al-Ḥākim.

The father of Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr was named al-Qāsim ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Zurārah, as stated in Aḥmad’s biographical entry. I have not found a biographical entry for him, nor was he mentioned in his son’s entry. And Allah, Most High, knows best.

Then I found that Abū Nuʿaym also transmitted it with a connected chain in Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah (1/125/1), through several routes from Ṭāriq ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṭāriq, with this chain. He said: “This is one of the reports in which Ṭāriq erred; he alone mentioned Jābir. Ibn Fuḍayl narrated it from Mūsā Abū Jaʿfar, from Sālim, from Sabrah ibn Abī Fākih, and this is the well-known version.” Abū Nuʿaym transmitted this narration of Ibn Fuḍayl with connected chains, through several routes from him, in the biographical entry of Sabrah ibn al-Fākih.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ mentioned this hadith in Jābir’s biographical entry and said: “Ibn Mandah said: ‘It is a singular report, narrated by Ṭāriq alone. The preserved version of this report is from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Sabrah ibn Abī Fākih.’”