53- Abū al-Faḍl Ismāʿīl bin Aḥmad al-ʿIrāqī informed us - in what he wrote to us -, he said: The Imam and Hadith master Abū Mūsā Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr bin Abī ʿĪsā al-Madīnī al-Aṣbahānī informed us (1),
Abū Ghālib Aḥmad bin al-ʿAbbās al-Kūshīdhī informed us (2), Abū Bakr bin Rīdhah informed us, the Imam and Hadith master Abū al-Qāsim al-Ṭabarānī informed us (3), Jaʿfar bin Sulaymān al-Nawfalī, Aḥmad bin Rishdīn al-Miṣrī, and Aḥmad bin Dāwūd al-Makkī narrated to us, they said: Ibrāhīm bin al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī narrated to us, Muḥammad bin Fulayḥ bin Sulaymān narrated to us, from his father, from Saʿīd bin al-Ḥārith, from [ʿUbayd Allāh] (4) bin Ḥunayn, he said:
While I was sitting, Qatāda bin al-Nuʿmān [May God be pleased with him] came to me and said:
Let us go, O Ibn Ḥunayn, to Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, for I have been informed that he has
except that I want to forgive you for whatever was in you, and I do not mind.'" [Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in his Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (2, hadith 1381). The hadith was authenticated by Ibn Kathīr, al-Haythamī, al-Mundhirī, al-Būṣīrī, and al-Suyūṭī, as previously mentioned in the Introduction. The hadith of Intercession has its origin in The two Sahihs from the hadith of Ḥammād b. Zayd, from Maʿbad. Al-Bukhārī narrated it (4476, 6565, and 7410), and Muslim (1/180) (322).]