al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Zurayq al-Shaybānī al-Qazzāz (1); the foremost transmitter of the age, the judge of the Bīmāristān (2) Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Anṣārī al-Baghdādī; the ascetic exemplar Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Hamadhānī (3) at Marw; the transmitter of Nīshāpūr Abū ’l-Futūḥ ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Shāh al-Shādhyākhī (4); the very elderly Abū ’l-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tawbah (5) al-Asadī al-ʿUkbarī, and his brother Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Jabbār (6).
Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Maḥmūd, the jurist, informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd informed us; my maternal grandfather, Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad—the ḥāfiẓ of Isfahān—informed us; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Sahl al-Sarrāj informed us; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan al-Azhari narrated to us; Abū ʿAwanah narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAffān and Ibrāhīm ibn Masʿūd al-Hamadhānī said:
Ibn Numayr related to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq, from Masrūq, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When a woman gives food from her husband’s household without causing waste, she receives her reward, he receives a reward equal to hers, and the storekeeper likewise receives a reward the same as that: his for what he intended, and hers for what she spent.” (7)
Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī said: I once asked Ismāʿīl, “Has it not been narrated from Ibn