Al-Nasa’i recorded the final sentence of it in al-Sunan al-Kubra (5/92/8351), omitting the words: “and Maʾkūl ...”

Ahmad then narrated it through Yazid ibn Yazid ibn Jabir, from a man, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, who said: “...” He cited it in abridged form, including:

“I would not care if both tribal groups were to perish, for there is no qayl or sovereignty except Allah’s ...”

Al-Haythami said thereafter (10/43):

“Ahmad narrated it both with a continuous chain and as a mursal report, as did al-Tabarani, who identified the unnamed narrator as Busr ibn ʿUbayd Allah. All their narrators are trustworthy.”

It also has a corroborating report, similar to the first narration but abridged: al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (20/98/192) through ʿAbd al-Razzaq, who said: Thawr ibn Yazid informed me, from Khalid ibn Maʿdan, from Muʿadh ibn Jabal ... He then cited it with similar wording.

I say: The narrators in this chain are trustworthy, except that Khalid ibn Maʿdan did not hear from Muʿadh, as al-Haythami stated (1).

3128—“Leave them alone, [O ʿUmar!], for they are Banu Arfidah.”

Al-Nasa’i recorded it (1/236), as did Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (7/548/5846—al-Ihsan), Abu Jaʿfar al-Tahawi in Mushkil al-Athar (1/117), and Ahmad (2/540), through several routes from al-Awzaʿi, who said: Ibn Shihab narrated to me; Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib narrated to me, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: