Abū Ḥabīb from Marthad ibn ʿAbd Allāh from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir in a marfūʿ manner. It was narrated by al-Dūlābī (1/110): Muḥammad ibn Salamah narrated it to us. I said: This isnād is authentic, all its men are trustworthy according to the criteria of Muslim.

- "The best people of the East are ʿAbd al-Qays; the people embraced Islam reluctantly, but they embraced it willingly." It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (2301), al-Ṭabarānī number (12970), and al-Bazzār as in "al-Majmaʿ" (10/49) through the route of Wahb ibn Yaḥyá ibn Zamām who narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn Sawāʾ who narrated from Shubayl ibn ʿAzrah from Abū Jamrah from Ibn ʿAbbās in a marfūʿ manner with it, but al-Ṭabarānī and al-Bazzār do not have the second part of it, and al-Haythamī said: "I do not know Wahb ibn Yaḥyá ibn Zamām, and the rest of its men are trustworthy." I said: However, the ḥadīth has a corroborating narration from Abū al-Qulūṣ Zayd ibn ʿAlī who said: One of the delegates who came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) from ʿAbd al-Qays narrated it to me, and he mentioned it in a marfūʿ manner in a story. It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/206) and its isnād is authentic. The first part of it has a corroborating narration from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ manner. Al-Haythamī said: "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ' and its men are trustworthy." I said: Abū Yaʿlá also narrated it (4/1441) but he stopped at it. So I do not know if this is how the narration reached him, or if its elevation was omitted by some copyists. I said: Its isnād is ḥasan and likewise said al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī in "Maḥajjat al-Qurb fī Faḍl al-ʿArab" (folio 49/1) after attributing it to al-Ṭabarānī. It was also recorded by Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī in "al-Muʿjam" (85/1) in a marfūʿ manner like al-Ṭabarānī.