وَأَسْنَدَ رِبْعِيُّ بْنُ حِرَاشٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَدِيثَيْنِ، وَعَنْ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَدِيثًا، وَقَدْ سَمِعَ رِبْعِيٌّ مِنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَرَوَى عَنْهُ.
Translation: Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh transmits two Prophetic reports from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn and one from Abū Bakrah, and his hearing and reporting from ʿAlī are established.
Abū Bakrah is not Abū Bakr. Ribʿī’s hearing from ʿAlī does not automatically prove the exact reception of each report from ʿImrān or Abū Bakrah, but it situates his practice in a well-attested generation.
The commentary identifies Ribʿī’s two reports from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn with the conversion of Ḥuṣayn (ʿImrān’s father) and a report about the Prophet’s awarding of a banner. The report through Abū Bakrah concerns the grave warning when two Muslims confront each other with weapons. Naming those subjects clarifies the three different routes without inserting full hadith wording into Muslim’s abbreviated argument.