in Shaʿbān of the year 498 AH.

I add: Among those who received reports from him were his grandson Masʿūd ibn Aḥmad; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Sinjī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Samʿānī; ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn Zāhir; ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār, the jurist; and others. From the later generation Saʿīd ibn Sahl al-Falakī, the vizier, also narrated from him.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; Zayn al-Umanaʾ al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad informed us; Saʿīd ibn Sahl informed us; Abū ʿAlī Naṣr Allāh ibn Aḥmad dictated to us in Nīshāpūr, saying: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Faḍl told us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm told us; Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz narrated to us; Maḥbūb ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, on the authority of al-Ḥasan, on the authority of ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn — may Allah be pleased with him — reported:

“A man, on his death-bed, emancipated six of his slaves, owning no property other than them. When that reached the Prophet ﷺ, he divided them into three lots, cast lots among them, freed two, and left four in servitude.” (1)

92 – Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Qāsim Najāḥ, the client of al-Muʾayyad bi-llāh*
The shaykh, the imām, the erudite scholar, master of the Qurʾān reciters, a polymath, Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn