We were informed by ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, who was informed by ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who was informed by Maʿmar — and also by ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bahrām, who was informed by Abū al-Yamān, who was informed by Shuʿayb — and also by Salamah ibn Shabīb, who was informed by al-Ḥasan ibn Aʿyan, who was informed by Maʿqil — that is, Ibn ʿUbayd Allāh — all of them on the authority of al-Zuhrī, with the chain of transmission of Yūnus and Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, similar to their report, except that in the report of Shuʿayb and Maʿqil, he was asked about the offspring of the polytheists.