if it were not for a word I heard from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥamq al-Khuzāʿī, I would have walked between al-Mukhtār's head and his body. I heard him say: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. This is an authentic chain, and its narrators are trustworthy as mentioned in "al-Zawāʾid" because Rafāʿah ibn Shaddād al-Qitbānī - with a kasrah on the qāf and a sukūn on the thāʾ - was deemed reliable by al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt," and the rest of the chain's narrators are those of Muslim. In a version by al-Nasāʾī: "When a man trusts another man and then kills him, a banner is raised for him..." It was also reported with the wording: "Whoever grants a man safety for his blood and then kills him, I am free from the killer, even if the killed was a disbeliever." It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh," al-Ṭaḥāwī in "al-Mushkil" (1/78), al-Kharāʾiṭī, and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Ṣaghīr" (p. 9, 121), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (9/24) through routes from al-Suddī from Rafāʿah ibn Shaddād with it. This is a good chain, its narrators are trustworthy except for al-Suddī, who is Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and he is truthful but makes mistakes, as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." It was also recorded by al-Ṭayālisī (p. 181, no. 1285): Muḥammad ibn Abān narrated to us from al-Suddī with it in the wording: "When a man grants another man safety for himself," and the rest is the same. Ibn Ḥibbān also narrated it in "Ṣaḥīḥ" (no. 1682 - Mawārid) with the wording: "Whichever man grants another man safety," and the rest is the same, and it is also in "al-Musnad" (5/223-224) without the phrase: "even if the killed was a disbeliever." It has a corroborating narration from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, raised [to the Prophet] with it