al-Sijzī, who said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Fūrak narrated to us; he said: the ḥadith master Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar al-Baḥīrī narrated to us; he said: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl b. Muṭarrif al-Karābīsī narrated to us in the year 347 AH; he said: Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥamdawayh, the ḥadith master, narrated to us; he said: al-Najjād narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān narrated to us; he said: Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī narrated to us; he said: Suʿayr b. al-Khims narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from al-Qāsim, from ʿĀʾishah who reported that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Bilāl gives the call to prayer at night —” and he mentioned the remainder of the ḥadith. ⦗1⦘

Masʿūd added, “Al-Ḥākim related this ḥadith to me on more than one occasion, and when al-Karābīsī transmitted it from him, al-Ḥākim was still a fresh-faced youth.”

Ibn Salāmah informed us from the ḥadith master ʿAbd al-Ghanī; he said: Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī informed us; he said: Hibat Allāh b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī informed us; he said: Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb informed us; he said: Abū al-Qāsim al-Azharī narrated to us; he said: al-Dāraqutnī narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Nasawī narrated to us; he said: Khalīl b. Aḥmad al-Nasawī narrated to us; he said: Khidāsh b. Makhlad narrated to us; he said: Yaʿīsh b. Hishām narrated to us; he said: Mālik narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas:

The Prophet ﷺ said, “How excellent a gift that precedes a need!”

I say: This report has been wrongly attached to Mālik, for it was actually transmitted by al-Walīd al-Muqriʾ ⦗2⦘, one of