- "Whoever revives dead land will have a reward for it, and whatever the creatures eat from it, he will have a reward for it." It was recorded by Imām Aḥmad (3/313) who said: Yaḥyá narrated to us from Hishām ibn Saʿīd, meaning Ibn ʿUrwah, who informed me that ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Anṣārī said: I heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say it, and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Then he said (3/326-327): Abū al-Naḍr narrated to us: Abū ʿAqīl narrated to us—ʿAbd Allāh said: My father said: Abū ʿAqīl's name is ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAqīl—Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rāfiʿ narrated to me from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh with it. I said: This clarifies that in the first chain there is a distortion, advancement, and delay, and the correct version is: "Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd from Hishām, meaning Ibn ʿUrwah." The printer and copyist erred, transferring "ibn Saʿīd" after "Yaḥyá" and placing it between "Hishām" and "meaning Ibn ʿUrwah." This isnād has narrators who are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rāfiʿ al-Anṣārī, who is unknown. He is the narrator of the ḥadīth of the Biʾr Buḍāʿah. However, the ḥadīth has two other paths, one of them from the path of Hishām ibn ʿUrwah himself with another isnād, which is what Aḥmad recorded (3/304) who said: ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī narrated to us from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from Wahb ibn Kaysān from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh as a marfūʿ ḥadīth with the wording: "Whoever revives dead land will have a reward from it, meaning, and whatever the creatures eat from it, it is charity for him." This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs