Aḥmad al-Shāshī (1); Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Abīwardī, the poet; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā ibn al-Labbānah, the Andalusian poet; and Hādī ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿAlawī.
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Najjār transmitted the report (ḥ).
Muḥammad ibn Balaghzā (2) also informed us; al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the jurist conveyed it. They both said:
Abū al-Saʿādāt Naṣr Allah al-Qazzāz told us; Shujāʿ ibn Fāris, the ḥāfiẓ, together with Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Iskāf, told us. They said:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khayyāṭ reported to us—Shujāʿ added:
and Abū Saʿd ibn al-Sibt, and Abū Ṭālib al-ʿUshārī. They said:
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dust informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣafwān informed us; Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated, from Ḍamrah, from Ibn Shawdhab, who said:
“Mālik ibn Dīnār and Muḥammad ibn Wāsiʿ once met and spoke about livelihood. Mālik said, ‘Nothing is better than for a man to have a steady income from which he can live.’ Muḥammad replied, ‘Blessed is the one who finds breakfast but not supper, and who finds supper but not breakfast, yet is content with Allah and with whom Allah is content.’”
211 – al-Ghassāl, Abū al-Khayr al-Mubārak ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad*
The imām, Qurʾān-reciter, and grammarian: Abū al-Khayr al-Mubārak ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad