Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī and Sulaymān ibn Qudāmah related to us, saying:

“Jaʿfar ibn Munīr reported to us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī reported to us; and Ahmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mardawayh, Ḥamd ibn Sahlawayh al-Sharābī, Abū Ṭālib Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Shaʿīrī, and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād also reported to us. They said:

‘The ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym transmitted to us; Abū Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah transmitted to him; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī transmitted to him; ʿUbādah ibn Ziyād transmitted to him; Yūnus ibn Abī Yaʿfūr transmitted to him, from his father, who said, “I heard Ibn ʿUmar say:

I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declare: ‘Every bond and every lineage will be severed on the Day of Resurrection except my bond and my lineage.’ (1)’”

Ahmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ānamī related to us on more than one occasion; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl related to us; and Masʿūd ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Jammāl related to us—

—and Ibn Salāmah informed me, quoting al-Jammāl; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; the ḥāfiẓ Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Ahmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṣṣār reported to us; Ṣāliḥ ibn Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal reported to us; I heard my father; I heard Sufyān; I heard al-Zuhrī; I heard Ibn al-Musayyib say:

“Blessed is the one whose livelihood is just enough and whose speech is upright.”

In that same year, ’thirty’—that is, 430 AH—there also passed away:
• the Musnid of Iraq, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishrān (2), the preacher;
• the Musnid of al-Andalus, Abū ʿAmr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Jahwar, who held an ijazah from al-Ājurrī;
• the senior Qurʾanic exegete, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥayrī (3), the blind scholar; and
• the man of letters, Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd