and His Messenger, the eight gates of Paradise will be opened for him, and he may enter through whichever of them he wishes."

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(1) In (R) and (M): of Paradise.

(2) A sound hadith, with two chains of transmission. The first: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd, from Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, with it. The second: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Abū ʿUthmān, from ʿUqbah, with it. Thus his statement "and Abū ʿUthmān" is coordinated with Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd, meaning that Abū ʿUthmān is a second teacher of Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, not a teacher of Rabīʿah. This is what Abū ʿAlī al-Jayyānī deemed correct—as al-Nawawī mentioned in *Sharḥ Muslim* 3/119—and he rejected what Ibn al-Ḥadhāʾ had written in his copy: "Rabīʿah said: and Abū ʿUthmān narrated to me…" etc. However, al-Mizzī deemed it correct in his *Tahdhīb* 34/76, stating: from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd, from Abū ʿUthmān. End quote. As for Abū ʿUthmān: Ibn Manjawayh said in *Rijāl Muslim* 2/396: he is likely Saʿīd ibn Hānīʾ al-Khawlānī; Ibn Ḥibbān said in his *Ṣaḥīḥ* (1050): he is likely Ḥurayz ibn ʿUthmān; al-Dhahabī said in *al-Mīzān*: it is not known who he is, and Muslim cited him in a supporting narration. End quote. The rest of his narrators are trustworthy, except Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, who is ṣadūq (truthful), and except Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, who is slightly below the level of trustworthiness. Moreover, the correct version of the second chain includes Jubayr ibn Nufayr between Abū ʿUthmān and ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, as will come later. The hadith is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā*, no. (140).

There is disagreement concerning it regarding Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb:

Muhammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb narrated it from him with these two chains, without mentioning Jubayr ibn Nufayr, as in the author's narration here.

Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn ʿImrān narrated it from him—as in *Sunan al-Tirmidhī* (55)—with these two chains, without mentioning Jubayr ibn Nufayr, and without mentioning ʿUqbah.

Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated it from him with these two chains—as in his *Muṣannaf* (21) and *Ṣaḥīḥ* Muslim (234)—mentioning Jubayr ibn Nufayr between Abū ʿUthmān and ʿUqbah, and that is the correct version. Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Masrūqī also narrated it likewise from Zayd ibn al-Ḥubāb, as will come in similar form from the hadith of ʿUqbah alone at no. (151) (without mentioning the hadith of ʿUmar). The forthcoming hadith of ʿUqbah and this hadith of ʿUmar are one single report concerning the mention of tending camels; some combined them, and some separated them, as the author did here.

Aḥmad (17393) and Muslim (234) also transmitted the two hadiths of ʿUmar and ʿUqbah concerning the mention of tending camels via the path of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, with these two chains, mentioning Jubayr ibn Nufayr between Abū ʿUthmān and ʿUqbah. =