ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Hāshim ibn al-Barīd narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Abī Rāfiʿ, from his father, from his grandfather, from Abū Dharr who said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say to ʿAlī: ‘You are the first who believed in me, you will be the first to shake my hand on the Day of Resurrection, you are al-ṣiddīq al-akbar (the greatest confirmer of truth), you are al-fārūq who separates truth from falsehood, you are the leader (yaʿsūb) of the believers, while wealth is the leader of the unbelievers.’”
Its chain of transmission is weak.

In that same year—namely, year nine—there passed away: the jurist Isḥāq ibn Tarkhān ibn Māḍī al-Shāghūrī (1), who transmitted from Ḥamzah ibn Karwas (2) in the Book on the Basmalah; the distinguished judge Abū al-Karam Asʿad ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Qādūs, at the age of ninety-six—he was the last of Ibn al-Ḥuṭayʾah’s companions; al-Sharīf al-Khaṭīb; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Dīnār al-Miṣrī, the goldsmith; the ḥadith scholar Sulaymān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Hibat Allah al-Isʿardī, preacher of Bayt (3) Lihyā; the jurist ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad ibn Māḍī al-Ḥanbalī; the judge of Baghdad, ʿImād al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muqbil al-Wāsiṭī al-Shāfiʿī, an ascetic and the teacher of Ziyād al-Marzūbānī; ʿAbd al-Sayyid ibn Aḥmad, preacher of Baʿqūbā; Sayf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ghanī, son of Shaykh al-Fakhr Ibn Taymiyyah, preacher of Ḥarrān; the jurist ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Rāzī, later of Damascus; Abū Fuṣayd Qaymāz al-Muʿaẓẓamī; and the Chief Judge, Sharaf al-Dīn (4) Abū al-Makārim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ibn ʿAyn al-Dawlah.