and in the first path, Usāmah ibn Zayd was followed up, as it was narrated by al-Tirmidhī (2/316) through the route of Hishām ibn Saʿd from Zayd ibn Aslam from Abū Hurayrah with it. He said: "A ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth, and we do not know of Zayd ibn Aslam hearing from Abū Hurayrah, and in my opinion, it is a mursal ḥadīth." I say: but its coming from the first path connected and from other paths from Abū Hurayrah indicates that the ḥadīth has an origin, especially since the statement: "A sword from the swords of Allāh" is established in "al-Ṣaḥīḥayn" and others from Anas. There is another corroborating narration with the wording: "What an excellent servant of Allāh and brother of the tribe is Khālid ibn al-Walīd, a sword from the swords of Allāh, unleashed by Allāh against the disbelievers and hypocrites." It was narrated by Aḥmad (1/8), al-Ḥākim (3/298), and Ibn ʿAsākir (5/271/1 and 2/17/372/1) from ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh who informed us that al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to me from Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb from his father from his grandfather Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb that Abū Bakr appointed Khālid ibn al-Walīd to fight the apostates, and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth, and al-Ḥākim said: "Ṣaḥīḥ isnād." Al-Dhahabī remained silent on it. I say: Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb was narrated from by a group other than al-Walīd ibn Muslim, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "Unknown." But his father, Ḥarb ibn Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb, is only known through the narration of his son Waḥshī, and therefore al-Bazzār said "unknown." There is another corroborating narration from ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) with the wording: "Khālid ibn al-Walīd is a sword from the swords of Allāh, unleashed against the polytheists." It was narrated by Ibn ʿAsākir (5/271/2) from al-Walīd ibn Shujāʿ who informed us that Ḍumrah said: al-Shaybānī informed me from Abū al-ʿAjmāʾ who said: It was said to ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: If only you would appoint a successor, O Commander of the Faithful, he said: If I had met Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ and then appointed him, and then I came to my Lord and He said to me, why did you appoint him over the Ummah of Muḥammad? I would say: I heard Your servant and Your beloved say: For every nation, there is a trustworthy one, and the trustworthy one of this nation is Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ. And if I had met Khālid ibn al-Walīd and then appointed him, and then I came to my Lord and He said to me: Whom did you appoint over the Ummah of Muḥammad? I would say: I heard Your servant and Your beloved say: and he mentioned it