Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām the secretary informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us and said:
“It was read aloud to Badr ibn al-Haytham—while I was listening—and he said, ‘Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj related to you; ʿUqbah ibn Khālid related to us; Usāmah ibn Zayd related to me; Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb related to me; from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, from ʿAlī, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught me some words to recite in times of distress: “There is no deity but Allah, the Forbearing, the Generous. Glory be to Allah, Lord of the seven heavens and Lord of the mighty Throne. All praise is for Allah, Lord of the worlds.”’⦗1⦘
Others transmitted the report with the additional link of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād between ʿAlī and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar; this version appears in Sunan al-Nasāʾī, where it is reported through Khayyāṭ al-Sunnah, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd, from Muḥammad ibn Salamah, from Khālid ibn Yazīd, from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bukht, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb.
402 Ibn Wāḍiḥ — Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Thaqafī*
The shaykh, scholar, long-lived and trustworthy authority, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad