and there is another follower mentioned there. Third: Qatādah said: from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd from Maʿdān ibn Abī Ṭalḥah al-Yaʿmurī from Abū Najīḥ al-Sulamī in a marfūʿ form. However, he did not mention the second section of it. It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (3965), al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (3/169/4879), al-Ṭaḥāwī (1/312), and al-Ṭayālisī (1154), and from him by al-Bayhaqī, and Aḥmad (4/113 and 384) from Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh from him. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad followed him from Qatādah with it. And Abū Najīḥ's name is ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu). It was narrated by Ibn Ḥibbān (1208). I said: This is a connected authentic isnād according to the criteria of Muslim, and this version is the most authentic of all the previous versions, if Allāh wills. There is a corroborating witness for the first and second sections from the ḥadīth of Ayyūb from Abū Qilābah that Shuraḥbīl ibn Ḥasanah said: Is there a man who can narrate to us from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)? ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah said: I am. He said: Fear Allāh and be cautious. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: and he mentioned them. However, he said in the second section: "And whoever frees two slaves, they are his ransom..." Ayyūb said: I thought he meant two women. It was narrated by al-Ṭaḥāwī (1/313). I said: Its isnād is authentic if Abū Qilābah's tadlīs is absent, and what Ayyūb said is supported by the previous narrations, as they explicitly state that. And Allāh knows best. The ḥadīth has a corroborating witness with its three sections from the ḥadīth of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf in a marfūʿ form. It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (1/16/2): narrated to us by ʿAmr ibn