Dāwūd). It reached us on his authority through Abū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, whose audition from al-Tustarī took place in 572 AH.
ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī said: The noble sayyid Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Bāghir ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-ʿAlawī—better known as Ibn Abī Zayd—told me: “I was born in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 561 AH.” He added: “He died in Rabīʿ al-Awwal, 560 AH.”
As for al-Samʿānī, he maintained that the birth took place in 569 AH. Ibn al-Najjār relates: “I asked the naqīb Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad about his father’s date of birth, and he replied, ‘569 AH.’”
I (the author) say: The vizier Ibn Hubayra summoned him, and there he heard the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from him. The ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Futūḥ Naṣr ibn al-Ḥuṣrī later transmitted it from him through a contiguous audition, remarking: “I was informed that his audition of it only came to light afterwards.”
Ibn Nuqta objected: “I have misgivings about this claim, for no one besides Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī has said it. In my view the sound position is the one recorded by Abū al-Maḥāsin al-Qurashī—that is, only the first fascicle, ending with the chapter on the disapproval of touching the private part while cleansing oneself.”
I add: Al-Miqdād ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qaysī also related the book to me from Ibn al-Ḥuṣrī by an uninterrupted audition and granted me licence to transmit it.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah informed us, on the authority of Aḥmad ibn Ṭāriq, that Abū Ṭālib al-ʿAlawī recited to them a poem of his own composition: