Amr bin Waleed narrates from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) a narration similar to the one mentioned above, which Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates as marfu‘. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I have written down the first part of the hadith even though it is mursal, because the following hadith of Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) is similar to it, which ‘Isa has narrated to us. If this narration did not exist, I would not have mentioned a mursal narration in my book.