the ḥāfiẓ said subsequently in "Mukhtaṣar al-Zawāʾid" (2/37): "The correct narration is that of Zakarīyā." And I say: the matter should have been as the ḥāfiẓ said; because Zakarīyā is more reliable and has a better memory than Mujālid; except for two matters: first, that he used to practice tadlīs, as the ḥāfiẓ himself mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." The second is that he was contradicted by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar. He said: from ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ ibn al-Aswad from his father Muṭīʿ who said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) when he ordered the killing of these individuals in Mecca say: ... and he mentioned the ḥadīth, and its wording: "Mecca will not be invaded after this year ever, and no Qurashī will be killed after this year ever." It is documented in the fifth volume of this authentic series under number (2427). And I add here by saying: indeed, Zakarīyā agreed—in the narration of Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd and others—with ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar; he said: ʿĀmir narrated it to him; except that he did not mention the first part of it. It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (6/13/2710), and Aḥmad (3/412 and 4/212). I said: and with this documentation, two truths become clear to us: first, that the narration of Zakarīyā from al-Shaʿbī from al-Ḥārith ibn Barṣāʾ is his mistake, and the correct narration is his agreement with the narration of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar from al-Shaʿbī from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ from his father. The second is that the text of his ḥadīth—I mean Zakarīyā; in both versions narrated from him—is different from the text of the translation ḥadīth; for it is in the wording: