It is narrated from Sayyiduna Laqit bin Sabirah (may Allah be pleased with him), who came with the delegation of the tribe of Banu al-Muntafiq. He said: My companion and I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but he was not at home, so Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) fed us dates and porridge. He said: Only a short while had passed when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came, walking with dignity, and asked: "Have you eaten something?" We said: Yes. While we were in that state, the shepherd came with a lamb (a young goat) in his hand. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "Has one been born?" He said: Yes. He asked: "What kind?" He said: A female. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Slaughter a sheep in its place." Then he turned to me and said: "Do not ever think that we slaughtered it on your account. Rather, we have a hundred sheep and we do not like their number to increase beyond that; so whenever the shepherd brings a newborn, we slaughter a sheep in its place." Ibn Jurayj said that in this sentence the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used the words "la tahsibanna" (with a kasrah under the sin), and did not say "la tahsabanna" (with a fathah).

Asim bin Laqit narrates from his father that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "la tahsibanna", and he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say "la tahsabanna" (with a fathah on the sin). This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: I recited before Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him): "And fear a Day when no soul will avail another soul at all" [Surah al-Baqarah: 48] , and I read it with "ta'". Sayyiduna Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught him to read it in the same way: "la tajzi nafsun 'an nafsin shay'an" is with "ta'", and "wa la tuqbalu minha shafa'atun" is also with "ta'", while "wa la yu'khadhu minha 'adlun" is with "ya'". This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reciting this verse: "wa tara al-nasa sakra" [Surah al-Hajj: 2] "And you will see the people intoxicated". We have written it this way (with the word "sakra").

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey, and his Companions had become spread apart from one another because of the journey. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) recited these two verses in a loud voice: "O mankind, fear your Lord. Indeed, the convulsion of the Hour is a tremendous thing. On the Day you see it, every nursing mother will be distracted from the child she is nursing, and every pregnant woman will deliver her burden, and you will see the people intoxicated while they are not intoxicated; but the punishment of Allah is severe" [Surah al-Hajj: 1-2] . When the Companions heard this recitation, they urged their mounts on and realized that he (peace and blessings be upon him) was about to say something (important). So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you know what day that is?" They said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is the day when Allah Almighty will call Adam (peace be upon him) and say: O Adam, send forth the contingent of Hell. He will say: O Lord, how many is the contingent of Hell? Allah Almighty will say: Out of every thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine to Hell and one to Paradise." Hearing this, the Companions were struck with despair and (out of grief) not a tooth of theirs showed (that is, they could not smile). When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw this sorrowful state of his Companions, he said: "Do good deeds and receive glad tidings. By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, you are with two creations who never accompany anything without making it numerous: (meaning) Gog and Magog, and those of the children of Adam and the children of Iblis who have perished." Then that (state of fear) which had overcome them was eased somewhat. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do good deeds and receive glad tidings. By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, you among the people (in number) are only like a mole on the side of a camel, or like a mark on the foreleg of an animal." The hadith of Hisham al-Dastuwa'i is sahih (authentic), because most of our early Imams hold that al-Hasan (al-Basri) heard from Imran bin Husayn; and as for where Hisham and al-Hakam bin Abd al-Malik differ, the word of Hisham is the one to be relied upon.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) recited "kayfa nunshizuha" [Surah al-Baqarah: 259] "how We raise the bones" with "za'". This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it, because neither of them used Isma'il bin Qays bin Thabit as evidence.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught me to recite it this way: "inni ana al-Razzaq dhu al-quwwat al-matin" "Indeed, I am the Provider, the Possessor of power, the Firm." [Surah al-Dhariyat: 58]