the blood of one another, and that was preordained by Allāh as it was for the nations before them. So I asked Him to grant me intercession for them on the Day of Resurrection, and He did." It was narrated by Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Sunnah" (71/2), Ibn Bishrān in "al-Amālī" (26/2), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ," and from him by Ibn ʿAsākir in "al-Tārīkh" (5/116/2), and al-Ḥākim in "al-Mustadrak" (1/68), all of them from Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥakam ibn Nāfiʿ al-Bahrānī, who reported from Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah, from al-Zuhrī, who reported from Anas ibn Mālik, from Umm Ḥabībah, from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Al-Ḥākim said: "Its isnād is authentic according to the criteria of al-Shaykhayn, but they did not include it. The issue for them was that Abū al-Yamān narrated it twice, saying once: from Shuʿayb, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas. And another time: from Ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, from Anas. We have previously mentioned that in similar cases, it is not surprising that a ḥadīth might be with an imam from two shaykhs, sometimes narrated from one, and sometimes from the other." I said: This response is not appropriate here for what follows. Abū Zurʿah al-Naṣrī al-Dimashqī said in "al-Thānī min Ḥadīthihi" (49/1): "I asked Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal about this ḥadīth of Abū al-Yamān, and he said: It has no basis from al-Zuhrī. He informed me that it is from the ḥadīth of Shuʿayb as it was attached to the book of al-Zuhrī. He said: And it reached me that Abū al-Yamān was accused, and it has no basis, as if he was suggesting that it got mixed with the book of al-Zuhrī as it was attached to it. And I saw him as if he was excusing Abū al-Yamān, not holding him accountable. Abū Zurʿah said: I also asked Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ about it when he arrived in Damascus in the year two hundred and nineteen, and he said to me the same as Aḥmad, that it has no basis from al-Zuhrī. It was narrated by Ibn ʿAsākir (5/116/2) from Abū Zurʿah. Then Ibn ʿAsākir narrated from the path of ʿAbd Allāh, and this is in "al-Musnad" (9/427 and 428), my father told me, Abū al-Yamān informed us, Shuʿayb ibn Abī Ḥamzah informed us, and he mentioned this ḥadīth following the ḥadīths of Ibn Abī Ḥusayn, and he said: Anas ibn Mālik informed us, from Umm Ḥabībah, from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)