The same tradition has also been reported by different intermediaries...

The same tradition has also been reported by different intermediaries, some named by Tabarani,[^8] some others by Hakim,[^9] who called a number of them ‘trustworthy’ as did Dhahabi.” Another evidence: ‘Atiyyah ‘Awfi quotes Abū Sa‘id Khudri as having said, “I am a human being who is about to be summoned by the divine angel and who is to respond to this call. I am leaving behind two things among you. If you hold on to them, you will not be misguided after me.

One of them is greater than the other: the Book of Allah, which is a rope extending from the heavens to the earth, and my Household [ ‘itrah ]. The two will never separate until they return to me beside the pond (of kawthar ).” Ahmad,[^10] Ibn Abi ‘Asim,[^11] Tabarani,[