al-Ḥāfiẓ; he had overlooked the first biographical entry in which Ibn Ḥibbān had given his lineage, but treated them as two separate individuals when they were in fact one and the same—as I have established in al-Taysīr.

The hadith is recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (no. 107), through ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr, from his father, who said: “I said to al-Zubayr, ‘Why do I not hear you narrating from the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—as so-and-so and so-and-so narrate?’ He replied, ‘I never left his company, but I heard him say …’” He then mentioned it in the wording:

“Whoever lies about me, let him take his place …”

This hadith, in this wording, is mass-transmitted, as stated in al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr and elsewhere. Aḥmad and Abū Yaʿlā (no. 667) added:

“deliberately.”

This is a well-established addition to it, even though the narrators differed in their transmission of it from Shuʿbah, as al-Ḥāfiẓ indicated (1/200–201), and as Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir—may Allah have mercy on him—confirmed in his commentary on al-Musnad (3/7–8). That disagreement does not preclude the addition’s being authentic in the hadith through routes other than Shuʿbah, as the commentator on Musnad Abī Yaʿlā (2/31) mistakenly supposed. Abū Dāwūd recorded it in his Sunan (3651) through another chain from ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from his father, as we shall verify, if Allah Most High wills, in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd.

It is also established in the reports of a number of other Companions—may Allah be pleased with them—including Abū Hurayrah, in the narration of the two Shaykhs, as mentioned above; Ibn ʿAmr; Abū Saʿīd; and others. I have documented some of these in al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr (582). Therefore, the denial of this addition by some writers—such as the author of Lights on the Muhammadan Sunnah—is ignorance and misguidance, as I mentioned in the introduction to Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah (1/49, Maktabat al-Maʿārif edition), and also under no. 1011. I explained that part of their misguidance is that, even if the addition were hypothetically not established in the hadith, its meaning would still have to be understood; otherwise, he and those like him would be the first to fall under the warning