and they both said: Imam Abū Bakr al-Barqānī related to us. I read before ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAllak—ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad has narrated to you; ʿAbbād ibn Mūsā narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd narrated to us; my father informed me, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ—that he used to recite in the dawn prayer on Friday: “Alif-Lām-Mīm. The Revelation” (Surah al-Sajdah 32:1) and “Has there not come over man… ” (Surah al-Insān 76:1). Muslim recorded it (1).

124 – Ibn Rumayḥ, Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Nakhaʿī
The imam, ḥāfiẓ, and intrepid traveler: Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rumayḥ ibn ʿUṣmah al-Nakhaʿī, originally from Nasā then from Marw, and the author of several works.

He studied under Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, ʿUmar ibn Abī Ghailān, Ibn Zaydān al-Bajalī, ʿAbd Allah ibn Maḥmūd al-Marwazī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, ʿAbd Allah ibn Shīrawayh, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Samarqandī the preacher, ʿUmar ibn Bujayr, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah, and others of their generation.

Al-Ḥākim said: “He arrived in Nishapur, so I convened a dictation session for him and read Sahih al-Bukhārī to him. He had resided for a time in Ṣaʿdah, Yemen; thereafter he came, was honored, and a great deal was transmitted from him in Baghdad.

“In his regard, the saying applies just as Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn put it: