and a stationer, surnamed “the Egyptian.”
He received ḥadith from: the ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr ibn Mardūyah; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Naqqāsh; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl al-Bāwardī; Abū Manṣūr Maʿmar ibn Ziyād; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jammāl; Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʿAlī al-Muʿaddal; Abū Zurʿah Rūḥ ibn Muḥammad; al-Faḍl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, and a group besides them. From many of these he was the sole surviving transmitter, and he held several public dictation sessions.
Those who narrated from him include: Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ; Muḥammad ibn Maʿmar al-Lunbānī; Abū Ḥanīfah Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Khaṭībī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī the Qur’an-reciter; ʿUmar ibn Abī Saʿd; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī; Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Kharqī; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Turk, and others.
Al-Samʿānī said: “He was righteous, long-lived, refined, and distinguished. He died in 497 AH.”
I [the author] add: He passed away after completing one hundred years.
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us; Abū Ḥanīfah the judge narrated to us; Abū Muṭīʿ narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Mūsā the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Hishām ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ṭālib narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim informed us; Ḥuṣayn informed us, from ʿĀmir, from ʿUrwah al-Bāriqī, who said:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses.’
“It was asked, ‘And what is that?’
“He replied, ‘Reward and spoils until the Day of Resurrection.’”
Agreed upon (1) through the narration of Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.