It was also recorded by al-Bayhaqī in *Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa* (3/198) and al-Wāḥidī in *Asbāb al-Nuzūl* (pp. 114–115) via the chain of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Fāris al-Dhuhlī, with this same chain of transmission.

It was also recorded by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in his *Tafsīr* — as cited in *Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr* (1/220) — from his father Abū Ḥātim, and by al-Wāḥidī in *Asbāb al-Nuzūl* (pp. 30–31) via the chain of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī; both of them (Abū Ḥātim and al-Dhuhlī) narrated from Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, with it. However, in their versions it states that the verse which was revealed was the saying of God the Exalted: {Many of the People of the Scripture wish they could turn you back} [al-Baqarah 2:109], instead of the verse of Āl ʿImrān, and it also contains the command to pardon and forgive. It is not unlikely that both verses were revealed concerning this matter, and this is supported by the narrations of al-Bukhārī and Muslim which will be mentioned at the end of the takhrīj.

It was also recorded by al-Bayhaqī in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (9/183) and in *Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa* (3/196–197) via the chain of ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Haytham, from Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, from Shuʿayb, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik — he said in *al-Sunan*: "I think he narrated from his father," and he was the son of one of the three whose repentance was accepted. He did not mention this in *al-Dalāʾil*, contenting himself with saying: "from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, and he was one of the three whose repentance was accepted," meaning Kaʿb ibn Mālik. Thus it appears in the printed editions of both works, so it should be verified.

It was also recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his *Muṣannaf* (9388) from Maʿmar ibn Rāshid, and by al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* (19/154) via the chain of ʿUqayl ibn Khālid; both from Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, as a mursal narration. Al-Bukhārī cited it in his *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr* (5/308) as a taʿlīq from Maʿmar, as mursal, via a chain other than that of ʿAbd al-Razzāq.

It was also recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his *Tafsīr* (1/142–143), and from his path al-Ṭabarī in his *Tafsīr* (4/201), from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, as mursal. He did not mention ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, nor his father.

It is authentically established with al-Bukhārī (4566), from Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ, from Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamza, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwa ibn al-Zubayr, from Usāma ibn Zayd ibn Ḥāritha, that these two verses — namely the two verses of al-Baqarah and Āl ʿImrān mentioned above — were revealed concerning a group of people in Medina who used to harm the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and his companions. However, in this narration, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ubayy ibn Salūl is mentioned instead of Kaʿb ibn al-Ashraf. It is also found with Muslim in a similar form (1798), but he did not mention the two verses.

The story of the killing of Kaʿb ibn al-Ashraf is authentically established from the ḥadīth of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, and it has already been mentioned by the author under number (2768).