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tradition, which, together with the absence of the revelation preamble in
the former, indicates that at least one of the traditions was ascribed to
Maymūn al-Maraʾī/Marāʾī and cannot be considered as belonging to al-
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. Second, Yazīd’s and Hushaym’s matns differ
considerably: Yazīd has the irregular opening of the prophetic dictum,
Hushaym has the usual opening; Yazīd cites the revelation preamble,
Hushaym does not cite it. Third, in the cluster through Qatāda b. Diʿāma
we observed a distorted connection between the revelation preamble and
the following penal maxim, which I interpreted as an indication of the
original independence of these two parts. Contrary to this, in the tradition
of Yazīd b. Hārūn the two parts are well connected. In other words,
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Yazīd’s matn is superior to most of the matns in the Qatāda cluster,
which indicates that Yazīd’s tradition in general may hardly be traced to
as early a source as either Qatāda or al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. At the same time
one should not brush away the possibility that it contains important
narrative relics.
Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī (d. 203–4/819–20) 133 and ʿAbd Allāh b.
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal 134 cite a tradition on the authority of the Baṣran
traditionist Jarīr b. Ḥāzim (d. 170/786–7) quoting al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. If
Jarīr b. Ḥāzim may be proven as the tradition’s CL, his version would be
conducive to the reconstruction of al-Ḥasan’s hypothetical tradition. Al-
Ṭayālisī cites the following matn:
(1a) Anna rasūl a l-lāh i , ṣalʿam, kāna idhā unzila ʿalay-hi l-waḥy u ʿurifa
dhālika fī-hi (1b) Fa-lammā unzilat “aw yajʿala l-lāh u la-hunna sabīl an ”
wa-rtafaʿa l-waḥy u qāla rasūl u l-lāh i , ṣalʿam: (2) Khudhū ḥidhr a -kum! (3)
Qad jaʿala l-lāh u la-hunna sabīl an (4a) Al-bikr u bi-l-bikr i jald u miʾat in wanafy
u sanat in (4b) wa-l-thayyib u bi-l-thayyib i jald u miʾat in wa-rajm un bi-l-
ḥijāra.
(1a) When a revelation would be sent down upon the Messenger of Allāh,
may Allāh bless him and grant him peace, this would be recognizable on
him. (1b) When [the verse] “or Allāh appoints a way for them” was
revealed and the revelation withdrew, the Messenger of Allāh said: (2)
“Beware yourselves! (3) Allāh has appointed a way for them (4a) A virgin
with a virgin [punish them with] one hundred strokes then a year’s
banishment (4b) and a non-virgin with a non-virgin [punish them with]
one hundred strokes then execution with stones.”
133 Al-Ṭayālisī, Musnad (Hydarabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-
Niẓāmiyya, 1331), 79–80; idem., Musnad, ed. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-
Turkī, 4 vols. (Dār Hajar, 1999), 1:478, no. 585.
134 Ibn Ḥanbal, Musnad, 37:442–3, no. 22780.