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muslim:2810dMuḥammad b. Bashhār And ʿAbd Allāh b. Hāshim > Yaḥyá Wahū al-Qaṭṭān > Sufyān > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Hāshim > ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father > Ibn Bashhār > Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Ibn Ka'b through another chain of transmitters but with " "the similitude of the disbeliever is that of a cypress tree".  

مسلم:٢٨١٠dوَحَدَّثَنَاهُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ هَاشِمٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى وَهُوَ الْقَطَّانُ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ ابْنُ هَاشِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَقَالَ ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

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