I remarked: He was one of the great imams of the Sunnah, and he wrote polished verse.
Ali ibn Ahmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; Ali ibn Jubārah informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī informed us; al-Mubārak ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār informed us; the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Naḥḥās informed us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥarrānī reported to us; Hāshim ibn Marthad narrated to us; al-Muʿāfā—meaning Ibn Sulaymān—narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Aʿyan narrated from ʿAbd Allāh, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
From the Prophet ﷺ: “Shorten the prayer, for behind you are the weak, the elderly, and those who have needs.”
This is a sound hadith (1).
The ʿAbd Allāh mentioned here is Bishr al-Raqī.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sulamī and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Wāsiṭī told us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salāmah al-Manbijī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Bayān informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar informed us; Aḥmad ibn Salamah al-Hilālī narrated to us; al-Miqdām ibn Dāwūd narrated to us; Abū Zurʿah ʿAbd al-Aḥad ibn al-Layth narrated from ʿUthmān ibn al-Ḥakam al-Judhāmī; Yūnus narrated from Ibn Shihāb; ʿUrwah told me, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
“The very first form of revelation given to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the truthful dream during sleep; he never saw a dream except that it came as clear as the break of dawn.” (2)
Abū al-Ḥasan the ḥāfiẓ recited to us; Jaʿfar al-Silafī informed us; Ibn