that ʿAlī sent for Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, and he was brought to him. ʿAlī said: "What has kept you from this matter?" He replied: "Your cousin—meaning the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)—gave me a sword and said: 'Fight with it as long as the enemy is fought. But when you see people killing each other, take it to a rock and strike it against it, then stay in your house until a decisive death or an erring hand comes to you.'" He said: "Release him." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/225), and its narrators are trustworthy, but it is disconnected between al-Ḥasan—meaning al-Baṣrī—and ʿAlī. Then it was recorded (5/226) through the route of Ziyād ibn Muslim Abū ʿUmar. Abū al-Ashʿath al-Ṣanʿānī narrated to us: "Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah sent us to Ibn al-Zubayr. When I arrived in Medina, I entered upon so-and-so—Ziyād named him—and he said: 'The people have done what they have done, so what do you see?' He said: 'My beloved Abū al-Qāsim (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) advised me that if I encountered something of these trials, I should go to a mountain and break the edge of my sword on it...' The ḥadīth is similar." Its chain is good. Then it was recorded (3/493) and by Ibn Mājah (3962) through the route of ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān from Abū Burdah who said: "I entered upon Muḥammad ibn Maslamah, and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth: 'There will be a trial and division and disagreement. When that happens, take your sword to a mountain and strike it...' The ḥadīth is like the narration of al-Ḥasan." Thus, the ḥadīth is authentic with all its routes. It was narrated by Zahdam ibn al-Ḥārith al-Ghifārī and others, who said: "Ahibān ibn Ṣayfī narrated it as marfūʿ in a similar manner." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (numbers 863-868).

"On the Day of Resurrection, an angel will be sent to every believer with a disbeliever, and the angel will say to the believer: 'O believer! Here is this disbeliever; he is your ransom from the Fire.'" It was recorded by Ibn ʿAsākir (18/143/2) from Yaḥyá ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Waḥāẓī, who informed us from Saʿīd ibn Yazīd ibn Dhī ʿUḍwān, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Abū Burdah, from his father, from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) with it. And he said: "Ibn Shāhīn said: Yazīd ibn Saʿīd is unique in narrating this ḥadīth from ʿAbd al-Malik, and he is..