So they chose fifty of them and sought to put them under oath, but they refused. So the Prophet ﷺ paid the blood money from his own wealth. (1)

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(1) Authentic due to corroborating evidence; this chain's narrators are trustworthy, but Hushaym—namely Ibn Bashir—was a mudallis and narrated it without specifying direct hearing. Abu Hayyan al-Taymi: he is Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Hayyan.

Al-Tabarani also recorded it in "Al-Mu'jam al-Kabir" (4413), al-Bayhaqi in 8/134 and 10/148, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in "Al-Tamhid" 23/210, and al-Mizzi in the biography of al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Rashid in "Tahdhib al-Kamal" 6/217–218, via the route of al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Rashid, with this chain.

It is corroborated in this wording by the hadith of 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, previously mentioned in the discussion of the preceding hadith, which is recorded by al-Nasa'i in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" (6896), and its chain is good.

It is also corroborated by the hadith of Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd, from Bashir ibn Yasar, from Sahl ibn Abi Hathma, which precedes it. For when al-Bukhari mentioned the hadith of Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd, he introduced it with the hadith of al-Ash'ath ibn Qays that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Your two witnesses or his oath," which is an authentic hadith recorded by al-Bukhari with a connected chain under number (2357), and by Muslim (138).

It has been authentically established from the hadith of Rafi' ibn Khadij and Sahl ibn Abi Hathma mentioning that the oath begins with the claimant, as in the two preceding narrations under numbers (4520) and (4521).

Al-Bayhaqi reconciled between the narration mentioning the proof or the calling of witnesses and the narration mentioning the oath, as we noted in connection with the preceding hadith. This reconciliation is supported by the narration of 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, as Ibn al-Qayyim stated in "Tahdhib al-Sunan."

It is apparent from al-Bukhari's practice that he subscribes to this reconciliation; for he cited the hadith of Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd, from Bashir ibn Yasar, mentioning the proof, indicating that the calling of witnesses is included in it, just as he also cited the hadith of Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, from Bashir ibn Yasar, mentioning the oath.

Thus, what was omitted in the narration of Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari—namely the proof—was made explicit in the narration of Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd and 'Ubayah ibn Rafi', and what was omitted in the narration of Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd and 'Ubayah—namely the oath—was made explicit in the narration of Yahya ibn Sa'id. And the narration of 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, clarified all of it. And Allah Most High knows best.