the Muslims, then he commanded and forbade him and admonished him, then said: Do you remember the day the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said, "There is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to Allāh"? Al-Ḥakam said: Yes, ʿImrān said: Allāhu akbar. In a narration by Aḥmad from Muḥammad: "I was informed that ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn said to al-Ḥakam al-Ghifārī—and both were Companions of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): Do you know the day the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: There is no obedience in disobedience to Allāh? He said: Yes, he said: Allāhu akbar, Allāhu akbar." And its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, but it is disconnected between Muḥammad, who is Ibn Sīrīn, and ʿImrān, as is explicit in the second narration. Then Aḥmad, al-Ṭabarānī, and al-Ḥākim (3/443) narrated it through two chains from al-Ḥasan: "That Ziyād appointed al-Ḥakam al-Ghifārī over an army, so ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn came to him and met him among the people and said: Do you know why I came to you? He said to him: Why? He said: Do you remember the saying of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) to the man whose leader said to him: Enter the fire! So the man stood to enter it, but was stopped, and informed the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) about it, who said: If he had entered it, they would have both entered the fire. There is no obedience in disobedience to Allāh? He said: I only wanted to remind you of this ḥadīth." Al-Ḥākim said: "Its isnād is authentic." And al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: And it is as they said if al-Ḥasan—who is al-Baṣrī—heard it from ʿImrān, for he was known to conceal [his sources], and al-Haythamī said in "al-Majmaʿ" (5/226) after he cited it from the path of ʿAbd Allāh ibn