from it, which attests to his erudition. He also authored a book entitled al-Sunnah, another called al-Jāmiʿ, a Book of Supplication, a Book of the Virtues of the Qur’an, a Book of the Proofs of Prophethood, a Book on False Testimony, and a Book on the Two Festivals—all furnished with full chains of transmission. In addition, he composed an extensive work on The Merits of Mālik, a volume entitled al-Ṣaḥīḥ al-Musnad al-Mukhrajj ʿalā al-Ṣaḥīḥayn, the Masānīd of the Muwaṭṭaʾ, Karamāt al-Awliyāʾ, a Book of Rites, a Book on Usury, The Perjurious Oath, a Book of His Teachers, and other writings besides.

I have not personally examined these compositions; they are merely listed by Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ. ⦗1⦘

ʿAlī ibn al-Mufaḍḍal, the ḥāfiẓ, said: “Our shaykh al-Sīlafī transmitted to us aḥādīth from Abū Bakr al-Turaythīthī on the basis of his own audition from Abū Dharr, and one ḥadith from Abū Shākir al-ʿUthmānī which he had likewise heard from him.

“We also heard from al-Sīlafī the entire Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Bukhārī through the authorization he held from Abū Maktūm ʿĪsā ibn Abī Dharr. Our teacher Abū ʿUbayd Niʿmah ibn Ziyādah Allāh al-Ghifārī had heard the book in Mecca from Abū Maktūm; I heard most of it from him, and for the remainder he granted me an ijāzah. The last person to narrate from Abū Maktūm was Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥumayd ibn ʿAmmār al-Anṣārī in Mecca, and he too authorized it for me.

“He added: I read the entire book to our shaykh Abū Ṭālib Ṣāliḥ ibn Sanad, who had heard it from al-Ṭurṭūshī, from Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī, from Abū Dharr. I also read it to Abū al-Qāsim Makhlūf ibn ʿAlī al-Qarawī, from Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn Nādir al-Lakhmī, from ʿAlī ibn Salmān al-Naqqāsh, from Abū Dharr, from his three shaykhs.” ⦗2⦘

The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Ghassānī said: “Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Walīd informed us…”