Al-Samʿānī said: I heard Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-ʿIjlī say: Whenever our teacher Abū Muḥammad al-Tamīmī related this ḥadīth he would quote the verse, “Is this sorcery, or do you not see?” (Q 52:15).

Al-Salafī—according to what I read aloud to Abū Muḥammad al-Dimyāṭī—said: Ibn Rawāj narrated to us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī narrated to us, saying:

“Rizq Allāh, the shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, arrived in Iṣfahān as an envoy sent by the caliph to the sultan. I was still a youngster then, yet I witnessed the day he entered the city; it was an occasion celebrated like a feast day—indeed, even more splendid. He was lodged at the Palace Gate, our own quarter inside the royal compound. I went to the Jūrjīrī Congregational Mosque and attended his gathering as an onlooker. Later, when I sought leave to study, Abū l-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muʿammar al-Lunbānī—one of the reliable authorities—said to me, ‘I have already obtained an ijāzah for you, together with the names of the boys whose names I recorded.’ So the shaykh wrote his endorsement granting the authorization.”

Abū Ghālib Hibat Allāh composed a poem, of which are the lines:
“At Shaykh Rizq Allāh’s arrival, Iṣfahān’s folk were blessed
With wondrous lines of transmission—what a treasure they possessed!”

Al-Salafī then said: Rizq Allāh transmitted, by way of general authorization, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī.

Abū Zakariyyā ibn Manda said: I heard Abū Muḥammad Rizq Allāh al-Ḥanbalī in Iṣfahān say: “Of Ibn Mujāhid’s companions I met only one, a man called Abū l-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Khaffāf. I recited Sūrah al-Baqarah to him, and he in turn recited it …”