it was also reported from Qatādah in a mursal form, and it includes: the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) entered a valley called (Shaʿb al-Ḥajūn), and the Prophet of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) drew a line for ʿAbd Allāh... the ḥadīth. It was narrated by Ibn Jarīr (26/20) with an authentic chain from him. *

(The emergence of the signs, one following another; they follow like beads in a string). It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1883), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (1/258/4431) through the route of Abū al-Rabīʿ al-Zahrānī who said: My father narrated to me from Hishām ibn Ḥassān from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn from Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)—he said: ... and he mentioned it. Al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from Hishām except Dāwūd al-ʿAtakī, and Abū al-Rabīʿ was unique in narrating it." I said: He is trustworthy, and his name is Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-ʿAtakī al-Zahrānī, relied upon by the two Shaykhs, and al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Trustworthy, no one criticized him with evidence." I said: And his father Dāwūd al-ʿAtakī is not known except through his son's narration from him, and no one translated for him as far as I know except Ibn Ḥibbān; he mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" (8/234) with this narration only! Despite that, al-Haythamī declared him trustworthy and said in "al-Majmaʿ" (7/321): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Awsaṭ', and its men are the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ; except for ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Dāwūd al-Zahrānī, and both are trustworthy!" More surprising is al-Dāraqutnī's criticism of the ḥadīth through his son Abū al-Rabīʿ—as reported by Ibn..