Abū Manṣūr ibn al-Jawālīqī narrated to us; al-Muqtafi li-Amr Allāh related to us … and he cited a hadith.
I recited it before al-Abarqūhī. Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Jawālīqī informed us; the vizier ʿAwn al-Dīn informed us; al-Muqtafi informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb informed us; Abū Muḥammad al-Ṣarīfīnī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ informed us; Ismāʿīl al-Warrāq narrated to us; Ḥafṣ al-Rabbālī narrated to us; Abū Suḥaym narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb narrated from Anas, who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “The affair will only grow tighter, people will only become more tight-fisted, and the Hour will not be established except over the worst of mankind.” (1)
A number of scholars likewise transmitted it to us after hearing it from Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī: Abū al-Fatḥ al-Bayḍāwī informed us; al-Ṣarīfīnī informed us.
Al-Muqtafi was intelligent and discerning, industrious and dignified, decisive and generous, a lover of hadith and learning who honoured its people. His conduct was praiseworthy: he combined devotion with sound governance, revived the emblems of the caliphate, personally oversaw critical matters, and campaigned with his armies.
Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ said: “His days were made verdant by justice, blooming—”