Zuhayr; Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-ʿUkbarī informed us; Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarbī informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; Ibn Ṣāʿid narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, who said: “I heard Abū Umāmah say: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declare, ‘My Lord has promised me that He will admit into Paradise from my community seventy thousand people without reckoning and without punishment. With every thousand will come another seventy thousand, and in addition three scoops from the scoops of my Lord.’ (1)”

Ibn Ṣāʿid also narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb at Wāsiṭ narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us; Ismāʿīl reported it in similar terms.

Baqiyyah likewise transmitted it from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, and the chain is strong.

Al-Khaṭīb said: I asked al-Barqānī, “Did Abū al-Ḥasan dictate the ʿilal to you from memory?” He answered, “Yes; I am the one who compiled them, and people have read them from my own copy.”

Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir (2) composed the following verses about al-Dāraquṭnī:
“We placed you, between ourselves and our Messenger,
as a mediator; you neither wronged nor overstepped.
You are the one—were it not for you, mankind would never know
how to tell the truthful from the liar, no matter how hard they strove.”

I say: Among al-Dāraquṭnī’s transmissions are reports with four intermediaries (rubāʿiyyāt).

Al-Baghawī narrated to us; Ṭālūt narrated to us; Faḍḍāl ibn Jubayr narrated to us, from Abū—