Ibn Shaybah said, “We know of no one who has transmitted this report except Bishr al-Khassāf, and he was a righteous man.” (1)
Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUbaydah ibn Maʿn al-Masʿūdī related—from his father, from al-Aʿmash, from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father—who said:
ʿAbd Allah remarked, “I remember being the sixth of six, and there was not a single Muslim on the face of the earth besides us.” (2)
Ibn Isḥāq said: “Ibn Masʿūd embraced Islam after twenty-two people.”
Yazīd ibn Rūmān reported: “ʿAbd Allah accepted Islam before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the house of al-Arqam.” (3)
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām granted us authorization, saying: ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Kulayb informed us; ʿAlī ibn Bayān informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad informed us. (ح)
I read this before Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq and ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān, and Abū al-Barakāt al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad informed the two of you, saying: “Muḥammad ibn al-Khalīl ibn Fāris narrated to us in the year 548 AH, and I was in my fifth year.” (ح)
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim, ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn ʿAsākir, Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Jalāl, and Ibn Muʾmin also informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allah the judge informed us; Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī al-Thaʿlabī narrated to us. (ح)
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān likewise informed us, saying: Abū al-Qāsim