, al-Ṭūsī (1)—with an open ṭāʾ—, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Jirj (2), and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Azdī, who lived on until 660 AH.
ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf, the ḥāfiẓ (3), informed me; he said: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī informed us; the ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥajarī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Baqī and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Biṭrawjī both said:
Muḥammad ibn al-Faraj, the jurist, narrated to us; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the judge, narrated to us; Abū ʿĪsā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; the uncle of Abū ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā informed us; my father informed us; Mālik informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever misses the ʿAṣr prayer is as though his family and his property have been taken from him.” (4)
Ibn ʿUbayd Allāh died in Muḥarram—though some said at the beginning of Ṣafar—of the year 591 AH, and his funeral in Ceuta was widely attended.
It is also said that he was born (5) in 503 AH.
(1) See al-Dhahabi, al-Mushtabih, p. 421.
(2) Al-Dhahabi writes in al-Mushtabih: “al-Jarj: Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. al-Jarj; al-Muʿin b. Abi al-ʿAbbas related to us from him at al-Thaghr” (p. 146). Ibn Nasir al-Din spells the name out letter by letter in his Tawdih, 1/fol. 125 (Zahiriyya copy).
(3) I.e. the Damyati, al-Dhahabi’s own teacher, d. 705/1305.
(4) Shuʿayb notes that the report is found in the Muwattaʾ 1/11–12, “Comprehensive Chapter on the Times of Prayer.” Through Malik it is also transmitted by al-Bukhari 2/24, “Times of Prayer: The Sin of One Who Misses ʿAsr,” and by Muslim, no. 626, “Mosques: The Severe Warning Against Missing ʿAsr.” The phrase “wutira ahlahu wa-mālahu” (his family and property were deprived) is read by the majority with ahlahu in the accusative as the second object of wutira; the agent, referring back to “the one who missed it,” is implicit, giving the sense “he was stricken in his family and wealth.” The verb thus governs two objects. Others interpret wutira here as meaning “diminished”; on that reading ahlahu may be accusative or nominative: those who ascribe the diminution to the man read it accusatively and supply an implicit subject, while those who ascribe it to the family read it nominatively.
(5) The author ought to have mentioned this immediately after the initial statement of the subject’s birth at the head of the entry; inserting it here =