Muhammad ibn Saʿd ⦗1⦘ said:
“Yaḥyā ibn Khulayf narrated to us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān narrated to us, from Muwarriq, who said:
‘I have never been completely overcome by anger, and I have been asking Allah for a certain need for twenty years. He has not granted it to me, yet I have never grown weary of supplication.’
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah informed us, from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Abū ʿAlī informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Fārūq narrated to us; Abū Muslim al-Kashshī narrated to us; Dāwūd ibn Shabīb narrated to us; Hammām narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Muwarriq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, ⦗2⦘ from Ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:
“The superiority of congregational prayer over a man’s prayer alone is twenty-five degrees.” ⦗3⦘
136 – Abū Salām Mamṭūr al-Ḥabashī, later the Damascene (M, 4)
He was also known as al-Aswad (the dark-skinned) and al-Aʿraj (the lame). Some said he was called al-Ḥabashī because he belonged to a clan of Ḥimyar—Allah knows best. He was counted among the eminent scholars of Syria.
He transmitted from Ḥudhayfah, Thawbān, ʿAlī, Abū Dharr, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, and others; many of these reports are mursal (with a missing link), for the scholars of Syria customarily narrate from the senior Companions in that manner. He also narrated from: Abū