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connective wāw instead of thumma in clause 3a. 78 Ibn Ḥibbān, who
quotes Qutayba b. Saʿīd through the agency of Muḥammad b. ʿAbd
Allāh b. al-Junayd, provides another, nearly identical, variant. His matn
differs from al-Tirmidhī’s in clause 1, in which Ibn Ḥibbān has opted for
a twofold repetition of the Prophet’s exclamation: Khudhū ʿan-nī!
Khudhū ʿan-nī! 79 Similarly to what we observed in the Shuʿba cluster,
Abū ʿAwāna relies on a collective isnād. 80 In the present case, however,
his matn is identical with al-Tirmidhī’s with the exception of clauses 3a
and 3b, which come in a reverse order. This rather spontaneous
rearrangement does not negate the value of Abū ʿAwāna’s tradition, but
suggests that the collector was perplexed about the exact wording, most
probably because of his reliance on a collective isnād. In sum, the
traditions through Qutayba b. Saʿīd are sufficiently homogenous as to
allow us to conclude that Qutayba is a PCL. Trivial variations in the
wording of the different riwāyas suggest individual ways of transmission
of a base tradition, which is indubitably linked with the name of
Qutayba.
Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī (142–226/759/60–840) is another key
figure in the transmission of the version of Hushaym b. Bashīr. Portrayed
as one of the most reliable traditionists in Khurāsān, Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā is
not surprisingly cited by Muslim b. Ḥajjāj:
(1) Khudhū ʿan-nī! Khudhū ʿan-nī! (2) Qad jaʿala l-lāh u la-hunna sabīl an .
(3b) Al-bikr u bi-l-bikr i jald u miʾat in wa-nafy u sana (3a) wa-l-thayyib u bi-lthayyib
i jald u miʾat in wa-l-rajm.
(1) Take it from me! Take it from me! (2) Allāh has appointed a way for
them. (3b) A virgin with a virgin [punish them with] one hundred strokes
and a year’s banishment, (3a) a non-virgin with a non-virgin [punish them
with] one hundred strokes and stoning. 81
Al-Marwazī, who is another direct CR of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, provides an
identical matn. 82 The much later al-Bayhaqī differs only in clause 1, in
which he abandons the twofold repetition of the Khudhū ʿan-nī!
78 Al-Nasāʾī, al-Sunan al-Kubrā, ed. Shuʿayb al-Arnāʾūṭ and Ḥasan ʿAbd al-
Munʿim Shalabī, 12 vols. (1st ed., Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Risāla, 1421/2001), 6:406,
no. 7106.
79 Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṣaḥīḥ, ed. Shuʿayb al-Arnāʾūṭ, 18 vols. (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-
Risāla, 1414/1993),10:271–2, no. 4425.
80 Abu ʿAwāna, Musnad, 4:120, no. 6248.
81 Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, 11:270, no. 1690.
82 Al-Marwazī, al-Sunna, 238, no. 370.