—in Rayy, in the month of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, 439 AH, Fātik, the freedman of Ibn Hārūn, narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris narrated to us; he said: Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb … and he mentioned a ḥadīth.
With this same chain up to Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad ibn ʿImrān al-Qaṭīʿī in Baghdad narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us … and he cited a ḥadīth.
Abū Ḥātim said—or rather, Khāmūsh noted at the end of a ḥadīth—“Abū Nuʿaym in Isfahān wrote this ḥadīth down from me.”
He (Khāmūsh) also transmits from Abū Muḥammad al-Mukhladī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qaṭṭān, the jurist Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Marwazī, and al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Muhallabī.
Those who narrated from him include Abū Manṣūr Ḥujr ibn Muẓaffar and the sharīf Yaḥyā ibn Ḥusayn.
His well-known episode with Shaykh al-Islām is famous: a coarse fellow once arrested him and brought him to Abū Ḥātim, saying, “This man has declared a doctrine the like of which I have never heard.” Abū Ḥātim answered, “He is a Hanbalī.” Then he added, “Leave him alone—woe to you! Whoever is not a Hanbalī is no Muslim.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn Qāymāz and Fāṭimah bint Jawhar informed us; they said: al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak informed us; Abū al-Futūḥ al-Ṭāʾī informed us; Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Tuwiyy, the jurist, informed us; Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Rāzī narrated to us; Ibn Mandah narrated to us; Abū Ḥāmid Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Naysābūrī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn —