Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī informed us, saying: Imam ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qudāmah narrated to us in the year 618 AH; ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak ibn Naghūbā narrated to us; Abū Nuʿaym Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Muẓaffar ibn Yazdād the perfumer narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān the ḥāfiẓ related to us; Abū Khalīfah related to us; Musaddad related to us; Abū ʿAwanah narrated, from Zayd ibn Jubayr, who said:
“I asked Ibn ʿUmar, ‘From where is it lawful for me to perform ʿumrah?’ He replied, ‘The Messenger of Allah fixed Dhu’l-Ḥulayfah for the people of Medina, al-Juhfah for the people of Syria, and Qarn for the people of Najd.’ (1)
Those who died in the year 373 AH were: the leading Qurʾān master Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Shadhāʾī in Basra; the amir Ballukīn ibn Zīrī al-Ḥimyarī, viceroy of al-Muʿizz over the Maghrib; the Daynūr Qurʾān reciter Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabash; the shaykh of the ascetics Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Salām al-Maghribī in Nishapur; ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Kaysān al-Ḥarbī, associate of Judge Yūsuf; al-Faḍl ibn Jaʿfar al-Tamīmī of Damascus, the muʾadhdhin; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ḥayyūyah ibn al-Muʾammal al-Karajī, the squanderer; and Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Jurjānī, companion of al-Firabrī.