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tabarani:18015 – ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Shabābah > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib from his father

I had seen the tree. When I came to the spot afterwards, I could not recognise it. (Using translation from Muslim 1859c)  

الطبراني:١٨٠١٥ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا شَبَابَةُ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ الشَّجَرَةَ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهَا بَعْدُ فَلَمْ أَعْرِفْهَا»  

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bukhari:4162 – Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ > Shabābah b. Sawwār Abū ʿAmr al-Fazārī > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab from his father > Laqad Raʾayt al-Shajarah Thum Ataytuhā Baʿd Falam Aʿrifhā

That his father said, "I saw the Tree (of the Ar-Ridwan Pledge of allegiance and when I returned to it later, I was not able to recognize it. (The sub--narrator MahmiJd said, Al-Musaiyab said, 'Then; forgot it (i.e., the Tree).)"  

البخاري:٤١٦٢ – حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ حَدَّثَنَا شَبَابَةُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ أَبُو عَمْرٍو الْفَزَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ الشَّجَرَةَ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهَا بَعْدُ فَلَمْ أَعْرِفْهَا قَالَ مَحْمُودٌ ثُمَّ أُنْسِيتُهَا بَعْدُ  

muslim:1859c – Ḥajjāj b. al-Shāʿir And Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ > Shabābah > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab from his father

I had seen the tree. When I came to the spot afterwards, I could not recognise it.  

مسلم:١٨٥٩c – وَحَدَّثَنِي حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الشَّاعِرِ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شَبَابَةُ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ الشَّجَرَةَ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُهَا بَعْدُ فَلَمْ أَعْرِفْهَا