and then says: lā ilāha illā Allah waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, lahu-l-mulku wa lahu-l-ḥamdu, yuḥyī wa yumīt, bi-yadihi-l-khayr, wa huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīr (There is no god but Allah alone, without partner; to Him belongs sovereignty and to Him belongs all praise; He gives life and causes death; all good is in His hand, and He is powerful over everything), Allah will record for him one million good deeds, erase one million sins, and build for him a house in Paradise.”
This chain of transmission is acceptable and singular. (1)
322 – al-Maydānī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Jaʿfar al-Dimashqī*
The shaykh, the imam, the ḥadith scholar, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī al-Dimashqī, known as Ibn al-Maydānī.
He narrated from: Abū ʿAlī ibn Hārūn; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmārah; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Marwān; al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Thābit; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dujānah; Abū ʿUmar ibn Faḍālah; and many others after them.
He applied himself to hadith transmission and narrated in great abundance.
Those who transmitted from him include: Rashāʾ ibn Naẓīf; Abū ʿAlī al-Ahwāzī; Abū Saʿd al-Sammān; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ; Aḥmad ibn Qubays al-Mālikī; and a number of others.