on oral transmission and memorization. I only said, “likelier,” because I found this hadith in the biographical entry for Abu Bishr al-Ansari in al-Isabah. It states:

“Ibn Abi Khaythamah mentioned him and related a hadith from him... [then he cited the hadith and said:] Ibn Abi Khaythamah distinguished him from Abu Bashir al-Ansari, whose hadith is cited in the two Sahihs. The former has a kasrah on the first letter and a sukun on the second, whereas the latter has a fathah on the first and a kasrah on the second. Ibn Abd al-Barr, however, regarded them as one and the same.”

Similar wording appears in Tahdhib al-Tahdhib.

The hadith in the two Sahihs to which he referred reads: “No necklace of bowstring—or any necklace—should remain around a camel’s neck without being cut off.” It is cited in Sahih Abi Dawud (2300).

The conclusion is that the Companion who narrated this hadith was Abu Bashir al-Ansari, as transmitted by the group of authorities. The version that calls him Abu Bishr or Abu Hubayrah is anomalous. As for calling him Abu al-Yusr in this report, no one transmitted this; it is merely one of the annotator’s errors. Allah is the Granter of success; there is no god but Him.

Preventing a Woman from Passing in Front of a Person Praying by Gesturing to Her

3042—“One day, he was leading them in prayer when a woman passed before him in the open ground. He gestured to her, ‘Move back,’ so she retreated until he had completed the prayer; then she passed.”

Ahmad (5/216) narrated it through Abd Allah, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir (22/294/751) through Yahya ibn Bukayr, who said: Ibn Lahi‘ah informed us; Habban ibn Wasi‘ narrated to me from his father, from Abd Allah ibn Zayd and Abu Bashir al-Ansari, that the Messenger of Allah—then he mentioned the hadith.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are reliable transmitters cited by Muslim, except that Muslim narrated from Ibn