ʿUqbah - the brother of Qabīṣah - narrated it from Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt and Sufyān al-Thawrī from Zubayd with it, and the addition is his, and he added at the end: "for they are the foremost, the outflanking, and the rear guard, and they are the enduring righteous deeds." It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (1/348-349) through the route of al-Ḥākim from Mihrān ibn Hārūn ibn ʿAlī al-Dāwūdī: Sufyān ibn ʿUqbah narrated to us... and it is also according to the criteria of Muslim except for this Mihrān, for I did not find anyone who documented him. Upon returning to "al-Mustadrak," it became clear that two narrators between Ibn ʿUqbah and Mihrān were omitted from "al-Shuʿab"! Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt is Ibn Ḥabīb the reciter, and he is truthful though he may err, from the men of Muslim, so he is a strong follower of al-Thawrī if the isnād to him is authentic, thus the reliance is on the narration of ʿĪsá ibn Yūnus. Indeed, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr contradicted him according to al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (275) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī according to al-Marwazī in "Ziyādāt al-Zuhd" (1134), for they narrated it from Sufyān from Zubayd with it as mawqūf. Zuhayr followed him, saying: Zubayd narrated to us with it. It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd in "al-Zuhd" (164/157). Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah also followed him from Zubayd with it as mawqūf. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (8990) and its isnād is authentic. Al-Haythamī said (10/90): "And its men are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ."