“Kill that fat, thin-legged man! What a wretched vanguard for a people!” He said, “Woe to you! Do not let this woman lead you to your ruin. A force has come upon you that you have no power to withstand. Whoever enters the house of Abū Sufyān is safe.” They said, “Woe to you! What good will your house do us?!” He said, “Whoever shuts his door is safe, and whoever enters the mosque is safe.” So the people dispersed to their homes and to the mosque.

It was reported by Ibn Isḥāq in al-Sīrah (4/17–24— Ibn Hishām); by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (8/10–15)—the wording cited is his; by al-Ṭabarī in al-Tārīkh (3/114), in part; as well as by al-Ḥākim (3/43–44), al-Bayhaqī in Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah (5/32), and Abū Dāwūd (3021)—a passage from it (2)—through Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, who said: Muhammad ibn Muslim al-Zuhrī narrated to me from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who related it. Al-Ḥākim said: “Authentic according to Muslim’s criteria,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him!

Al-Haythamī made a similar statement in al-Majmaʿ (6/167):

“It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and its transmitters are those of the two authentic collections.”

I say: Muslim narrated from Muhammad ibn Isḥāq only in corroboration. His reports are generally good, provided that he explicitly states his transmission, as he does here; and he is an authority in Prophetic biography, as is well known among the scholars. This is why al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr quoted it from al-Sīrah in his historical work, al-Bidāyah (4/288–291), without comment; as did al-Ḥāfiẓ in al-Fatḥ (7/8–12), quoting passages