hunger. (1) Al-Ṭabarānī said to me, "Sit down; either sustenance will come or death."
So Abū al-Shaykh and I rose, and an ʿAlawī appeared at the door. We opened it for him, and with him were two servants carrying two baskets filled with many provisions. He said, "Did you complain about me to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him? I saw him in a dream, and he commanded me to bring something to you."

The ḥāfiẓ Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: Maʿmar ibn al-Fākhir narrated to us, my uncle narrated to us, and I heard Abū Naṣr ibn Abī al-Ḥasan say:

I heard Ibn Salāmah say: It was said to the minister Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād, "You are a Muʿtazilite, while Ibn al-Muqriʾ is a ḥadith scholar, yet you love him!" He replied, "Because he was my father’s friend, and it has been said, ‘The fathers’ affection is the children’s kinship.’ (2) Moreover, I was asleep and saw the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in my dream saying to me, ‘You are sleeping while a friend of Allah is at your door?!’ I awoke, called out, and asked, ‘Who is at the door?’ He said, ‘Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ.’"

Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mahdī said: I heard Ibn al-Muqriʾ say, "My creed in the fundamentals is the creed of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī."

Ibn al-Muqriʾ was the custodian of Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād’s library.

None of his higher-level authorizations have reached me except the Maʾmūn copy, for whose elevated chain Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Madīnī was uniquely distinguished.

Ibn al-Muqriʾ heard ḥadith in roughly fifty cities. From his Muʿjam I selected forty reports that I myself heard in forty towns, and I likewise chose forty city-hadiths for Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Jumayʿ al-Ghassānī.

Abū Ṭāhir ibn Salamah said: I heard Ibn al-Muqriʾ say, "I have touched…"