with the Opening Chapter of the Book. (1)

He retorted, “You are lying; al-Fātiḥah did not exist in the Prophet’s time—it was only revealed during the caliphate of ʿUmar. (2)”

Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥākim said: “ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyūyah, the ḥāfiẓ, man of letters, and one of the eminent itinerant scholars, came to us in Nīshāpūr, stayed for several years, and then travelled through Iraq, Egypt, and Syria.

“He prepared an extracted recension of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and refined it; I met him both in Baghdad and in Bukhara. (3)”

Ghanjar remarked: “He died in Dīnawar in the year 368 AH.”

206 – Ibn Ḥasnavayh, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Harawī*

The upright hadith scholar, Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasnavayh ibn Yūnus al-Harawī.

He heard Ḥusayn ibn Idrīs and others of his generation.

Among those who narrated from him are Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb, al-Barqānī, Abū Ḥāzim al-ʿAbduwī, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Qurashī, and others.