its chain of transmission, especially since it is mentioned in it from the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd as a mawqūf report, but it is stated in it that he is the one who disputed with the Angel of Mercy. Therefore, I included it in the other book under number (5254). Then the addition of the inspiration to the earth seems to be an insertion attributed to Qatādah from al-Ḥasan at the end of the ḥadīth: when death was recognized... etc. Refer to "al-Fatḥ" and "al-Taʿlīq al-Raghīb." The ḥadīth has also been narrated from a number of other "Companions," in both extended and abbreviated forms. Al-Haythamī included them (10/211-213), among them from Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān, and in his ḥadīth, the scholar said: "If I were to tell you that Allāh does not accept the repentance of one who repents, I would be lying." And at the end of it: "So Allāh forgave him." It was recorded by Abū Yaʿlá (4/1775-1776) and al-Ṭabarānī (19/369/367) and "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (1/349) through two chains from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir who said: ʿUbaydah ibn Abī al-Muhājir - or Abū ʿAbd Rabb, al-Walīd was uncertain - said: I heard Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān... and he mentioned it. I said: Its narrators are trustworthy, but ʿUbaydah ibn Abī al-Muhājir was only deemed reliable by Ibn Ḥibbān, and he is not known except through this narration. As for (Abū ʿAbd Rabb), he is the ascetic from Damascus, and he is truthful as al-Dhahabī said. Refer to "Taysīr al-Intifāʿ." The mentioned uncertainty is only in the narration of Abū Laylá, not al-Ṭabarānī, and it is likely that it is from the ḥadīth of (Abū ʿAbd Rabb), as it is preserved from al-Walīd ibn Muslim in two other ḥadīths, one of which was mentioned earlier under number (1734) and was narrated from him by Ibn Mājah and Ibn Ḥibbān through al-Walīd. Aḥmad recorded them (4/94) in a single context from the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd informed us of it. The chain is good as al-Mundhirī said (4/78). Among them from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, and in it, the first village is named "Naṣrah," and the other..