informed them in 531 AH, saying:
“We were informed by ʿAbd al-Ghāfir ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī in Muḥarram of the year 441 AH. He reported to us from Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, who said: al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd, Sulaymān ibn Ayyūb Ṣāḥib al-Baṣrī, and Abū Kāmil all narrated to us, saying:
‘Abū ʿAwānah related to us, from Qatādah, from Abū al-Malīḥ, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Allah does not accept a prayer without purification, nor charity taken from misappropriated spoils.”’
Al-Nasāʾī also transmitted it (1) through the route of Qutaybah, and our chain concurs with his.
369 – Ibn al-Muʾadhdhin, Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
The Imām, the unrivaled jurist, Abū Saʿd Ismāʿīl, son of the ḥāfiẓ and muʾadhdhin Abū Ṣāliḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAlī al-Nīshāpūrī—the preacher, widely known as al-Kirmānī because he lived there.
Abū Saʿd al-Samʿānī said: “He was a man of sound opinion, intellect, and knowledge, and he excelled in …”