and the third alternative route is what is found in Aḥmad (3/356): Yūnus and Yaḥyá ibn Abī Bukayr narrated to us, they said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir with it, except that Yūnus said: "he has a reward in it," and Ibn Abī Bukayr said: "it is his," and they both said: "the exemption." This isnād is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim, as he has produced with this isnād more than one ḥadīth, except that Abū al-Zubayr is a mudallis and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah, but he is followed up as mentioned. Now, there is a difference regarding this phrase of the ḥadīth: "he has a reward in it" or "it is his" in its first part. The narration of Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and the narration of ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī are like the first narration, which is Yūnus's narration, and it is the narration of two other trustworthy narrators from Hishām with the two isnāds, differing from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd and ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād, and they are Ḥammād ibn Usāmah and Ḥammād ibn Zayd. As for the first, Aḥmad produced his ḥadīth (3/381), he said: Ḥammād ibn Usāmah narrated to us, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to me: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Rāfiʿ narrated to me with it in the wording: (Whoever revives dead land, it is his, and whatever the exemption consumes from it is charity for him). As for Ibn Zayd, Aḥmad said (3/338): Yūnus narrated to us: Ḥammād, meaning Ibn Zayd, narrated to us: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us from Wahīb ibn Kaysān from Jābir with it, except that he said: it is charity for him. A man said: O Abū al-Mundhir - Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: Abū al-Mundhir is Hishām ibn ʿUrwah - what is the exemption? What do I exempt from anything?" It is not clear to me now which narration is correct among them, and perhaps we will later come across what favors one over the other, so we will clarify it on another occasion, if Allāh wills. Then I saw the ḥadīth in "Gharīb al-Ḥadīth" by Abū ʿUbayd (Q 52/1): Muʿāwiyah narrated to us from