al-Silafī, from Ibn Māka, from him (1).
It is also related (2) that he was once in the presence of al-Ḥākim, who asked him, “Abū Salama who narrates from al-Zuhrī—what is his full name?” He paused to think and then answered, “Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥafṣa,” a reply for which al-Ḥākim expressed his appreciation.
Abū Yaʿlā died in Qazwīn at the end of 446 AH, and he was in his eighties.
In that same year passed away: the shaykh of the Qurʾān reciters Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ahwāzī in Damascus; the principal ḥadith scholar Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿAmr ibn Ubay al-Furātī in Nīshāpūr; the erudite savant Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Taymī al-Iṣfahānī, known as Ibn al-Labbān (3); the musnid of Damascus, al-Ṣadr Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAfīf ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naṣr (4) al-Tamīmī; and the Andalusian Qurʾān teacher Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Qurṭubī.
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Yūnusī informed us, saying: Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār in Qazwīn informed us; Abū Yaʿlā Khalīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Zāhid informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAdī narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ informed us; al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)