- When this verse was revealed: "O you who have believed, whoever among you should revert from his religion - Allāh will bring forth [in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him" (Sūrah al-Māʾidah, 54); the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) gestured to Abū Mūsá with something he had, and said: "They are the people of this man." It was narrated by al-Ḥākim (2/313), Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (12/125), Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (4/107), Ibn Jarīr in "al-Tafsīr" (6/183), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (17/371/1016) through various chains from Shuʿbah from Simāk ibn Ḥarb from ʿIyāḍ al-Ashʿarī who said: ... and he mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the criteria of Muslim." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. Al-Haythamī said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (7/16): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and its men are the men of the authentic collections." And I say: ʿIyāḍ is Ibn ʿAmr al-Ashʿarī, and there is a difference of opinion regarding his companionship. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "A Companion, he has a ḥadīth, and Abū Ḥātim decisively stated that his ḥadīth is mursal, and that he saw Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ; thus he would be considered a successor." I said: And it has been narrated in a connected form; Ibn Jarīr said: Ibn al-Muthanná narrated to us, saying: Abū al-Walīd narrated to us, saying: Shuʿbah narrated to us from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, who said: I heard ʿIyāḍ narrating from Abū Mūsá: that the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) recited this verse ... a similar ḥadīth. I said: And this is a sound, connected chain; for Abū al-Walīd—whose name is Hishām ibn