Hamd ibn ʿUmar informed us; Yusuf ibn al-Husayn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; Aḥmad ibn Naṣr al-Bukhārī narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qummī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Ḥabīb al-Baghdādī narrated to us; Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; he said, “I heard al-Awzāʿī say:
‘Wearing wool while travelling is a sunnah, but doing so while resident is an innovation.’” (1)
A group of scholars granted us licence to transmit from Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad, the jurist of Bukhara; al-Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr, the qāḍī of Khān, informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz dictated to us, saying, “My uncle Maḥmūd”—Qāḍī Khān added, “He is my grandfather”—“narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn Manṣūr, the ḥāfiẓ, dictated to us; Abū Naṣr al-Kalābādhī, the ḥāfiẓ, narrated to us; Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī narrated to us; Misʿar narrated to us; ʿAṭiyyah narrated on the authority of Abū Saʿīd, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever seeks knowledge, the angels pray for him—,” and so forth; this is the remainder of the ḥadīth. (2)
The ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Māma said: I heard Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Kalābādhī say, “I used to know the appearance and qualities of the Companions so well that it was as though I could see them before my eyes; but once I became occupied with writing for the ruler, that departed from me.”
59 – Al-Ḍabbī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Hārūn ibn Muḥammad.
The judge, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn (3) ibn Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī, of Baghdad.