Muhammad ibn …; and ʿAbd Allah al-Azdi (1); the author of “al-Nāsikh wa’l-Mansūkh,” Abu al-Qāsim Hibat Allah ibn Salāmah al-Baghdadi; the hadith scholar of Damascus, Abu al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar ibn Naṣr al-Shaybani (2); the musnid of Baghdad, Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad al-Bāqirḥī; and the long-lived Abu Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Bālūyah (3), known as al-Muzakkī, the man of that celebrated elevated session.
Abu al-Ḥusayn al-Yūnīnī informed us; Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī and others transmitted to us, saying:
Abu Ṭāhir al-Silafī told us; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Thaqafī narrated to us; the ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Mūsā dictated to us, saying: Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Duḥaym and Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Aswārī both related to us, saying:
Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAbsī narrated to us; Wakiʿ narrated from al-Aʿmash, from Abu Ṣāliḥ, from Abu Hurayrah who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The heaviest prayers upon the hypocrites are the night prayer and the dawn prayer; if they only knew what is contained in them, they would come even if they had to crawl.” Agreed upon (4).
189 – Ibn Bishrān ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Umawī*
The shaykh, the scholar, deemed upright, the musnid: Abu al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Bishrān ibn Muḥammad ibn Bishr, al-Umawī, of Baghdad.
He was born in the year 328 AH.