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Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in *al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ* (8678) via the chain of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, scribe of al-Layth, from al-Layth ibn Saʿd, from ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿAbbās al-Qatbānī, from Bukayr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ashajj, from Busr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥusayn al-Ashjaʿī, from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. But Qutayba ibn Saʿīd differed from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, [as recorded] with Abū Khaythama Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb in his *Musnad*, as found in *al-Nukat al-Ẓirāf* 3/280, and [also with] Aḥmad (1609), al-Tirmidhī (2340), Abū Yaʿlā (750), al-Haytham ibn Kulayb al-Shāshī in his *Musnad* (126), al-Sahmī in *Taʾrīkh Jurjān* under entry (1160), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in *al-Mukhtāra* (938), all from al-Layth ibn Saʿd, from ʿAyyāsh ibn ʿAbbās, from Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj, from Busr ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ—without mentioning al-Ashjaʿī. Al-Dāraquṭnī corrected [the version] that mentions him, as we have stated above.

Aḥmad also recorded it (1446) via the chain of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Lahīʿa, from Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj, that he heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥusayn narrating that he heard Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. Thus he dropped Busr ibn Saʿīd from its chain, and Ibn Lahīʿa is weak in memory.

Ibn Abī Shayba 15/7, al-Dūraqī in *Musnad Saʿd* (115), al-Bazzār (1223) and (1224), and Abū Yaʿlā (789) also recorded it via multiple chains from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ—without his saying: "O Messenger of Allah, what if someone enters my house and extends his hand to kill me…" to the end of the ḥadīth. Its chain is sound.

This ḥadīth is corroborated by the ḥadīth of Abū Bakra mentioned before it, the ḥadīth of Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī coming later under number (4259), and the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayra to which reference was made at the preceding ḥadīth.

The final portion of it—his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: "Be like the son of Adam"—is corroborated by the ḥadīth of Abū Mūsā coming later under number (4259), and the ḥadīth of Abū Dharr coming later with the author under number (4261), which is a sound ḥadīth, and the ḥadīth of Abū Bakra in Muslim (2887).

Regarding his saying: "Be like the son of Adam," it is said in *ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd*: The absolute [expression] refers to "the complete one," and therein is a subtle indication that Abel, the one killed unjustly, is the son of Adam—not Cain, the unjust killer—just as He, exalted be He, said concerning the son of Noah, peace be upon him: {Indeed, he is not of your family; indeed, he is a deed other than righteous.} And in some [versions]: "like the two sons of Adam," and in some copies: "like the better of the two sons of Adam," meaning: submit yourself so that you become the slain one like Abel, and do not be the killer. And see the ḥadīth coming later under number (4771).