(1) The report comes from al-Bara’. Al-Bukhari cited it in Af‘al al-‘Ibad (pp. 79–80); likewise Abu Dawud (1/231), al-Nasa’i (1/157), al-Darimi (2/474), Ibn Majah (1/404), Ibn Nasr (54), Tamam al-Razi (1/130/300), al-Hakim (1/571-575), al-Bayhaqi (2/53), al-Tayalisi (100) and Ahmad (pp. 283, 285, 304). All these routes pass through Talhah ibn Musarrif, who said: “I heard ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Awsajah say: I heard al-Bara’ ibn ‘Azib narrate it.” This chain is sound. Al-Bukhari also recorded it decisively in his Sahih (13/444). Al-Hafiz notes that Ibn Khuzaymah and Ibn Hibban included it in their Sahih collections from the same chain. Al-Hafiz al-‘Iraqi (1/251) adds that al-Hakim judged it authentic, though the copy of al-Mustadrak available to us contains no explicit grading; al-Hakim merely lists its various routes from Talhah and others. Al-Hakim (1/575) and al-Khateeb in Tarikh Baghdad (4/261) further transmitted it through Muhammad ibn Bakkar → Qays ibn al-Rabi‘ → Zubayd ibn al-Harith → ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Awsajah → al-Bara’; this isnad is good. Additional routes exist: al-Hakim recorded it via Isma‘il ibn Rajaa’ → Aws ibn Dam‘aj → al-Bara’, a sound chain; and again through Abu Maryam ‘Abd al-Ghafar ibn al-Qasim → ‘Adi ibn Thabit → al-Bara’. (*) The wording does not match what Ibn Hajar cites from al-Mustadrak in Ithaf al-Maharah; see 2/474–478.