the Makkan, and the number of people who attended his funeral exceeded all bounds and defied any attempt at counting (1).
Ḥasan b. ʿAlī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Hamdānī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us; Abū Yāsir al-Khayyāṭ and Abū Saʿd al-Asadī informed us, saying:
Abū al-Qāsim b. Bishrān informed us; Aḥmad b. al-Faḍl b. Khuzaymah informed us; Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī narrated to us; Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Ṭabbāʿ narrated to us; Hishaym narrated to us; Manṣūr narrated to us, from ʿAlī b. Zayd, from Abū Khālid, from Abū Hurayrah:
From the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—who was asked, “Messenger of Allah, how will they walk upon their faces?”
He replied, “The One who enabled them to walk upon their feet is fully able to make them walk upon their faces.” (2)
304 – al-Manīnī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Rizq Allāh b. ʿUbayd Allāh *
He was an imam, Qur’an-reciter, and the preacher of Manīn. His full name is Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Rizq Allāh b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī ʿAmr al-Manīnī, known as al-Aswad.
He lived for a little over eighty years.
He heard hadith from ʿAlī b. Abī al-ʿAqab, and from Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b.