In that same year there also passed away: Abū Jaʿfar al-Abharī; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī; Abū Naṣr Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī, author of al-Ṣiḥāḥ; the ḥāfiẓ Khalaf ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Dabbāgh al-Andalusī; the caliph al-Ṭāʾiʿ lillāh; the Andalusian vizier and victorious ruler Abū ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿĀmir; Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Salāmī, the foremost poet of his day; and the sayyid Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Hamadhānī.
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qaṭīʿī informed us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Makhlad informed us (ḥ).
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq likewise informed us; he said: ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Zāhid informed us; he said: Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī informed us. They both said:
Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī informed us; he said: Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalṣ said:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Baḥīr ibn Saʿd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Kathīr ibn Murrah, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbsah, who related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Whoever emancipates a Muslim slave, that act will serve as his ransom from Hell; and whoever acquires a gray hair in the path of Allah, it will be a light for him on the Day of Resurrection.” (1)
Al-Nasāʾī transmitted this ḥadīth through Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jaʿfar, from Aswad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, from a client of Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, from an unnamed man, from al-Ṣunābiḥī, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbsah; and al-Tirmidhī narrated its second half (2) through al-Kawsaj, from Ḥaywah, from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd.