“Do you testify that I am the Messenger of Allah?” She said, “Yes.” He said:

“Do you believe in the resurrection after death?” She said, “Yes.” He said:

“Emancipate her.”

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Ibn Khuzaymah reported it through the route of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, and it appears in al-Muṣannaf (9/175/16814), where he said: Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, with this report.

Through the route of ʿAbd al-Razzāq, it was also reported by Aḥmad (3/451) and Ibn al-Jārūd in al-Muntaqā (31/931). Ibn Kathīr said in his exegesis, after attributing it to Aḥmad:

“Its chain of transmission is authentic, and the unknown identity of the Companion does not impair it.”

I say: It is as he said, were it not for the fact that Maʿmar was contradicted by a group of trustworthy narrators, who transmitted it as a mursal report. Mālik (2/6) and Yūnus ibn Yazīd narrated it from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh: that a man from the Anṣār came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him ... with a similar hadith.

Al-Bayhaqī reported it (7/388 and 10/57) and said:

“This is mursal. It has also been reported as: from ʿAwn ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him. And it has also been reported as: from ʿAwn, from his father, from his grandfather.”

I say: Al-Ḥākim reported it with a connected chain of transmission (3/258), and al-Bayhaqī likewise reported it from him in the first of the two places mentioned; likewise,