al-Taqrīb. However, Abū Isḥāq—who was ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sabīʿī—practised tadlīs and related it using ambiguous “from” wording.

He had another teacher for this report. Sufyān said: from Abū Isḥāq, from Khumayr ibn Mālik, who said: ʿAbd Allāh said:

“I recited directly from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ...” the hadith.

It was recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah (10/500/10112), Aḥmad (1/389 and 405), al-Ṭabarānī (8435), and al-Ḥākim (2/228), who declared it authentic, as did al-Dhahabī.

Its narrators are trustworthy, except that no one declared Khumayr trustworthy besides Ibn Ḥibbān (4/214), who mentioned another narrator from him besides Abū Isḥāq.

A group corroborated Sufyān, as recorded by al-Ṭabarānī and al-Ṭayālisī (54/405).

It has other chains of transmission from Ibn Masʿūd, including that of Zirr ibn Ḥubaysh, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd said ... and he cited it with wording like that of Khumayr.

Al-Ṭabarānī (8441) recorded it through Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUbaydah: My father narrated to us from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Razīn, from him.

This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy and among Muslim’s narrators. Abū Razīn’s name was Masʿūd ibn Mālik, while Abū ʿUbaydah, Muḥammad’s father, was ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Masʿūd al-Hudhalī al-Masʿūdī.

ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah corroborated Abū Razīn in an abbreviated version, worded:

“I received seventy suras directly from the mouth of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and no one disputes them with me.”

It was recorded by al-Ṭayālisī (47/353), Aḥmad (1/453 and 457), and al-Ṭabarānī (8442) through Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from him.