He narrated it to us: Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, he said: Ibn Abi Za'idah narrated to us. (Another chain:) And Ishaq narrated to us, he said: Azhar al-Samman informed us. (Another chain:) And Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, he said: Ibn Abi 'Adiyy narrated to us. All of them, from Ibn 'Awn, with this chain of transmission — something similar to it, except that the hadith of Ibn Abi Za'idah and Azhar ended at his saying: "or to feed a friend without seeking wealth thereby," and what came after it was not mentioned. And in the hadith of Ibn Abi 'Adiyy, there is what Sulaym mentioned of his saying: "So I narrated this hadith to Muhammad" — to the end of it.