"they declared him a liar, and they criticized him for several things." A similar story is what Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated from al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Ṣāliḥ from his mother, who said: Salāmah bint Maʿqil said: "I was with al-Ḥubāb ibn ʿAmr and had a child from him. His wife said to me: 'Now you will be sold for his debt.' So I went to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and mentioned that to him. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: 'Who is the guardian of the estate of al-Ḥubāb ibn ʿAmr?' They said: 'His brother Abū al-Yasar Kaʿb ibn ʿAmr.' So the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) summoned him and said: 'Do not sell her, but emancipate her. When you hear that some slaves have come to me, come to me, and I will compensate you.'" They did so, but they disagreed among themselves after the death of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). Some said: "The mother of the child is a slave; otherwise, the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) would not have compensated them for her." Others said: "She is free, for the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) emancipated her." Thus, there was disagreement. It was recorded by Aḥmad (6/360) with this context, and by al-Bayhaqī, as well as Abū Dāwūd (2/163) without the story of the disagreement, and he added: "She said: 'They emancipated me, and slaves came to the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), so he compensated them with a boy from me.'" I say: The chain of narration is weak; the mother of al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Ṣāliḥ is unknown, as the ḥāfiẓ said. And her son al-Khaṭṭāb, al-Dhahabī said: "Ibn Isḥāq is the only one who narrated from him, and al-Bukhārī considered him reliable." Ibn Isḥāq is a known mudallis and narrated it with 'anʿanah. What ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated in "al-Muṣannaf" (13211) may contradict what was mentioned earlier: Ibn Jurayj informed us, saying: Abū al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: "We used to sell the mothers of children, and the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was among us alive, and we saw no harm in that." I say: This is a sound and connected chain of narration, according to the criteria of Muslim