ibn Sulaymān al-Bazzār, who said, “Jaʿfar ibn Nūḥ narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Ṭabbāʿ narrated to us; ʿAbthar ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Thaʿlabah, from Ṭāwūs, from Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Leave that which causes you doubt for that which does not.’
This is a singular ḥadith; al-ʿAlāʾ is its sole transmitter, and he is unknown.⦗1⦘
Among those who also died in the year sixty-eight and three hundred (368 AH) were: the leading traditionist of the age, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān al-Qaṭīʿī of Baghdad; the master grammarian Abū Saʿīd al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Marzubān al-Sīrāfī; the musnid of Damascus, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Zamzām al-Faraḍī; the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Jurjānī, known as al-Ābandūnī; the Qurʾān reciter of Baghdad, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Nakhkhās; the judge ʿĪsā ibn Ḥāmid al-Rakhjī of Baghdad; the long-lived Muḥammad ibn ʿUbaydūn al-Andalusī—the last to narrate from Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ; the transmitter of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn ʿAmrawayh al-Julūdī of Nīshāpūr; the musnid Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Harawī; and the ruler of Mosul, Abū Taghlib al-Ghaḍanfar ibn Nāṣir al-Dawlah ibn Ḥamdān al-Taghlibī.
170 – Ibn al-Salīm, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Umawī*
The erudite, devout scholar, Chief Judge of al-Andalus, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn