Sulaymān and Muḥammad, the two sons of Ḥamzah, informed us—both of them having heard it directly from the first—saying:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makkī informed us; the ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid in Rayy informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥamdān informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makkī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Muḥammad narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Wahb narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī narrated to us; al-Zuhrī informed us, from ʿUrwah, from Zaynab bint Abī Salamah, from Umm Salamah:
“The Prophet ﷺ saw in her house a young girl whose face showed a dark discoloration, so he said, ‘Perform ruqyah for her, for she has been struck by the evil eye.’ ⦗1⦘
This report is gharīb, a singular narration whose chain is consecutively linked through transmitters named Muḥammad—fifteen individuals in all.
456 – al-Ṭaffāl, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī
The shaykh, imām, reliable authority, Qur’an reciter, and leading transmitter of Egypt: Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Sarī al-Naysābūrī, later of Egypt, a cloth-merchant known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl.
He was born in 359 AH.
He narrated from the judge Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Dhuhlī, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥayyūyah