The freed slave of the family of Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:

I heard Abū Hurayrah say: I came with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he heard a man reciting {Say: He is Allah, the One (1) Allah, the Eternal, the Absolute (2) He begets not, nor was He begotten (3) And there is none comparable to Him} (Qur’an 112). The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “It has become obligatory.” I asked him: “What has become obligatory, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “Paradise.”

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= Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Sāʾib ibn ʿUmayr, a Medinan, trustworthy, known as such among the people of ḥadīth.

(1) A sound ḥadīth; its narrators are trustworthy. It is found in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* under the numbers (1068), (10470), and (11651).

There is disagreement over the name of ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān as transmitted from Mālik. It is said he is Ibn Abī Dhubāb, as in *al-Tahdhīb*—and he is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith, also called ʿUbayd Allāh. And it is said he is ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Sāʾib ibn ʿUmayr, as in the *Tahdhīb* of al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar, and this is what Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr affirmed in *al-Tamhīd* 19/216; he said: “This is the correct view, no doubt about it.” He denied that he was Abū Ṭuwālah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʿmar al-Anṣārī, and he declared Aḥmad ibn Khālid to be mistaken (as mentioned in the preceding commentary) for including this ḥadīth in the chapter of Abū Ṭuwālah. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: The error entered upon him only from the narration of al-Qaʿnabī and his saying therein: ʿAbd Allāh, so he assumed that the statement of Yaḥyā (the narrator of *al-Muwaṭṭaʾ*): ʿUbayd Allāh, was a mistake. End quote. However, what Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr denied, Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir, may Allah have mercy on him, affirmed in his commentary on the ḥadīth of *Musnad* Aḥmad (7998—his edition), stating that this narrator is Abū Ṭuwālah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Maʿmar. He said: Because Mālik has three other ḥadīths from him in *al-Muwaṭṭaʾ*, which Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned in *al-Taqaṣṣī*. Then Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir said: Had Mālik intended another shaykh, he would have clarified it and specified his lineage—and he is the most knowledgeable of people about his shaykhs and the narrators of ḥadīth among the people of Medina, and he is the authority in that. End quote.

It is also said regarding the narrator’s name: ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, as al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in *al-ʿIlal* 5/307. And Allah knows best.

It is in *Muwaṭṭaʾ* Mālik 1/208 in the narration of Yaḥyā al-Laythī, and (257) in the narration of Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī, and in both: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

It was also transmitted by Aḥmad (8011) from Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī, and (10919) from ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar; and Abū Dāwūd from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī, as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr mentioned in *al-Tamhīd* 19/216; and al-Tirmidhī (2897) via the route of Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān; and the author in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* (11651) via the route of =