Ibn ʿAsākir informed us—on the authority of Abū Rūḥ; Zāhir informed us; Abū Saʿd the Qur’an-reciter informed us; Abū Ṭāhir ibn Khuzaymah informed us, saying: My grandfather Abū Bakr narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; al-ʿAlāʾ narrated from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The five daily prayers, and one Friday prayer to the next, are expiations for what occurs between them, provided the major sins are not committed.” (1)

361 – al-Kushmīhānī, Abū al-Haytham Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Muḥammad *

The ḥadith scholar and reliable authority: Abū al-Haytham Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Muḥammad ibn Makkī ibn Zarrāʿ ibn Hārūn al-Marwazī, known as al-Kushmīhānī.

He recited Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī several times from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Firabrī. He also narrated from ʿAbd Allāh (2) ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Marwazī al-Dāʿūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār, and others.

Those who transmitted from him include: Abū Dharr al-Harawī, Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Baḥīrī, Abū al-Khair Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿImrān al-Ṣaffār, Abū Sahl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥafṣī, Karīmah al-Marwaziyyah—the long-time resident of the Holy Precinct—and many others.

He was considered truthful (ṣadūq).