It was recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf (15/302/19723), Aḥmad (4/319), Ibn Saʿd (3/257), Abū Yaʿlā (3/188/1613), Ibn ʿAsākir in Tārīkh Dimashq (12/658), and al-Ḥākim (3/389), who said:

“Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim.”

Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

I say: It is as they said, provided that Ḥabīb heard it from Abū al-Bakhtarī, for he practised tadlīs (obscuring a defect in the chain). Moreover, Abū al-Bakhtarī—whose name was Saʿīd ibn Fayrūz—did not live long enough to meet ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him. However, he was corroborated, for Abū Yaʿlā (1626)—from whom Ibn ʿAsākir narrated it (12/659)—said: Wahb ibn Baqiyyah narrated to us: Khālid narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Maysarah and Abū al-Bakhtarī, that ʿAmmār, on the day of Ṣiffīn ... narrated a hadith like it.

Occasion of revelation: “Whoever leaves his home as an emigrant ...”

3218—(Khālid ibn Ḥizām emigrated to the land of Abyssinia. A snake bit him on the way, and he died; whereupon the following was revealed concerning him:

“Whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger, then death overtakes him, his reward has become due from Allah. And Allah is Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [al-Nisāʾ: 100]

Al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām said: “I kept expecting him and awaiting his arrival while I was in Abyssinia. When news of his death reached me, nothing grieved me as much as his death, for scarcely anyone from Quraysh who emigrated was without some member of his family or a relative with him. Yet I had no one from the Banū Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā with me, nor did I hope for anyone but him.”)

It was recorded by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in al-Tafsīr (2/175/1): Abū Zurʿah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Shaybah al-Ḥizāmī narrated to me: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Mughīrah ibn