Shaykh al-A‘zami, influenced by the aforementioned conflation of al-Haythami, thought that Ibn Jud‘an had been omitted from its chain of transmission. Thus, in his annotation on Kashf al-Astar, after the statement cited above, he said: “The original does not contain ‘Ali ibn Zayd’ in the chain of transmission of the hadith of ‘Ikrimah from Ibn ‘Abbas.”

I say: Nor should he be in it, for he did not narrate from ‘Ikrimah, unlike Muhammad ibn ‘Awn al-Khurasani, whom they listed among those who narrated from him.

The third route: from Musa ibn Ibrahim ibn Ja‘far ibn Mihran al-Sabbaq: My father, Ibrahim ibn Ja‘far ibn Mihran, narrated to us; Sulayman ibn Harb narrated to us; Shu‘bah narrated to us, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, from him, with the same report. Ibn ‘Asakir also reported it.

I say: I do not know Musa ibn Ibrahim al-Sabbaq or his father. Those above them in the chain are narrators of the two Sahihs, except that Ibn Abi Thabit practised tadlis.

2 - ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘As—or his father, ‘Amr. Yahya ibn Sa‘id narrated it from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib, from him. Al-Tabari reported it in his Tafsir (3/174), as did al-Bazzar (2360) and Ibn ‘Asakir (18/82), through several routes from Yahya with this chain. Some said, “from Ibn ‘Amr”; others, “from ‘Amr”; one of them, “from Ibn al-‘As”; and some attributed it to the Companion alone. None of this is detrimental, for it has the ruling of a report attributed to the Prophet, especially since an addition made by a trustworthy narrator is accepted. Whether the one transmitting it with a continuous chain is Ibn ‘Amr or his father, this merely constitutes a shift from one Companion to another, and they are all upright. The more likely version is that it is from Ibn ‘Amr, since Sa‘id is known to have narrated from him.

Al-Tabari and Ibn ‘Asakir added: He said: Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, lowered his hand to the ground, took a small twig, and said: