the reliable narrators of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, except for Abū ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥudhayfah. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" and a group narrated from him. The ḥadīth has well-known corroborating reports, some of which were previously mentioned under numbers (143 - 145).

- "Whoever swears, let him swear by the Lord of the Kaʿbah." It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "al-Mushkil" (1/91), Aḥmad (6/371 and 372), Ibn Saʿd (8/309), and al-Ḥākim (4/297) through the route of al-Masʿūdī: Maʿbad ibn Khālid narrated to me from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yasār from Qutaylah bint Ṣayfī al-Juhanīyah who said: "A scholar from the scholars came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: O Muḥammad! You are a good people if only you did not commit shirk! He said: Glory be to Allāh! What is that? He said, you say when you swear: by the Kaʿbah. She said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) paused for a while and then said: It has been said, so whoever swears, let him swear by the Lord of the Kaʿbah. He said: O Muḥammad! You are a good people if only you did not set up equals to Allāh! He said: Glory be to Allāh! What is that? He said: You say: What Allāh wills and you will. She said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) paused for a while and then said: It has been said, so whoever says: What Allāh wills, let him say with it: then you will." I say: Its isnād consists of reliable narrators except that al-Masʿūdī - who is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah ibn Masʿūd - became confused. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Burhān al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī mentioned him in his treatise "al-Ightibāṭ bi-man Rumiya bi-l-Ikhtilāṭ" (p. 16). As for al-Ḥākim, he said: "Ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād!" and al-Dhahabī agreed with him! This is strange from him, for he himself included al-Masʿūdī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" and said: "Ibn Ḥibbān said: He was truthful except that he became confused at the end." Yes, he has been followed up, for al-Nasāʾī recorded it (2/140) through the route of Masʿar from Maʿbad ibn Khālid with a similar narration