= The lengthy hadith of Ka‘b, and Ibn Hajar in his *Tahdhīb* quoted al-Dhuhlī as saying: “I do not think he heard anything from his grandfather,” and al-Dāraquṭnī as saying: “His narration from his grandfather is *mursal*,” and Abū al-‘Abbās al-Ṭarfī as saying: “He only narrated a few phrases of the hadith from his grandfather, and he could not [narrate] the hadith in its entirety, so he confirmed it from his father.” End quote. ‘Abd Allāh: he is Ibn al-Mubārak, and the hadith is in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under numbers (5585–5586).

Abū Dāwūd also transmitted it (2202) from Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd, with the second chain, and he paired with him Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn al-Sarḥ. He also transmitted it (3317) with this chain, containing another portion of it, concerning his giving away his wealth in charity.

Muslim transmitted it (2769) (lengthened with the story of Ka‘b’s repentance) from Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn al-Sarḥ, from Ibn Wahb, with the second chain.

Al-Bukhārī transmitted (6690) another portion of it (concerning Ka‘b’s giving away his wealth in charity) from Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn Wahb, with the second chain, and this portion will come via this route under number (3824). See also the introduction to *al-Fatḥ*, hadith (41) among the hadiths that al-Dāraquṭnī criticized against al-Bukhārī.

Ibn Wahb was followed in his narration from Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī, with the second chain:

Aḥmad transmitted it (15789) at length via the route of Ibn Akhī al-Zuhrī, and (15782) with another portion of it via the route of Ibn al-Mubārak from Yūnus ibn Yazīd, and the author [of this work], as will come in the two hadiths after it, via the routes of Isḥāq ibn Rāshid and ‘Uqayl—all four of them from al-Zuhrī, with it.

Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn ‘Īsā was also followed in his narration from ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Yūnus, with the first chain:

For other portions of it were transmitted: Aḥmad (27176) from Yaḥyā ibn Ādam, and al-Bukhārī (2948) from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad—both of them from ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Yūnus, with it, and Aḥmad paired Ma‘mar ibn Rāshid with Yūnus.

But ‘Attāb ibn Ziyād differed from them—as in *Musnad* Aḥmad (15782)—for he narrated it from ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, from Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī, from ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ka‘b, from his father ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ka‘b, from Ka‘b ibn Mālik, with another portion of it, thereby inserting ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ka‘b into his chain between ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ka‘b and his grandfather Ka‘b. His mention has already come shortly before, and his disagreement does no harm, and the chain is sound.

Aḥmad also transmitted (15770) another piece of it (concerning Ka‘b’s giving away his wealth in charity) via the route of Ibn Jurayj, from al-Zuhrī, with the first chain. =