to this man who is in the Ḥijāz so that they may bring me news of him. So Bādhān sent his chamberlain and another man, and he wrote a letter with them. They arrived in Medina and delivered Bādhān's letter to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) smiled and invited them to Islam while they were trembling with fear. He said, "Return to me today and come to me tomorrow, and I will inform you of what I desire." They came to him the next day, and he said to them... and he mentioned it. And Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Aslamī, who is al-Wāqidī, is abandoned [as a narrator]. However, the ḥadīth of the translation is established as it is reported through various chains. Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī mentioned it in "al-Tārīkh" (2, 654) from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb in a mursal form. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr mentioned in "al-Bidāyah" (4/270) that al-Bayhaqī narrated (and perhaps he means in "al-Dalāʾil") from the ḥadīth of Ḥammād ibn Salamah from Ḥumayd from al-Ḥasan from Abū Bakrah. "that a man from the people of Persia came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said, 'Indeed, my Lord has killed your lord tonight.'" Al-Bayhaqī said: And it is narrated in the ḥadīth of Dihyah ibn Khalīfah that when he returned from Caesar, he found at the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) the messengers of Kisrá. This was because Kisrá sent a threat to the ruler of Ṣanʿāʾ, saying to him, "Will you not suffice me regarding the matter of a man who has appeared in your land calling me to his religion? You must deal with him, or I will deal with you." So he sent to him and said to his messengers, "Inform him that my Lord has killed his lord tonight." And they found it as he had said. He said: And Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind narrated from ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī something similar. All of this was mentioned by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr, and despite his meticulousness, he missed that the ḥadīth of Abū Bakrah was also recorded by Imām Aḥmad (5/43), narrated by Aswad ibn ʿĀmir, narrated by Ḥammād ibn Salamah with it. And its isnād is according to the conditions of Muslim, and there is no defect in it except what is feared from the ʿanʿanah of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī due to tadlīs. However, he clearly stated the transmission in another narration with Aḥmad (5/51), so the ḥadīth is authentic, and all praise is due to Allāh. And perhaps because of the witnesses and chains we mentioned for the ḥadīth, al-Ḥāfiẓ was silent about it in "Fatḥ al-Bārī" (8/96)