al-Muʿnim ibn ʿAsākir, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ḥusāmī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Mukabbar, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabbāgh, Abū al-Ḥazm, and Abū Bakr.
ʿUthmān al-Sunbūsakī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAnbar, Sunqur al-Ḥalabī, Khadījah bint Ghunaymah, Ibn al-Sukhna, and many others related to us, saying, “ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar related to us.” (h)
Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Hamdānī also informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Mubārak, Nafīs ibn Karam, and ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn ʿAsākir related to us. (h)
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān informed us, as did Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir and al-Ḥusayn ibn Mubārak; the six of them said:
“Abū al-Waqt al-Sijzī related to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī Masʿūd al-Fārisī related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Shurayḥ related to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Baghawī of Baghdad related to us; Abū al-Jahm al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Mūsā al-Bāhilī dictated it to us in the year 227 AH. He said: ‘Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Anṣārī (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
Someone who was present with Muʿādh (may Allah be pleased with him) at the moment of his death informed me, saying:
“Lift the curtain of the canopy from me, for I heard a statement from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that I have refrained from reporting to you only out of fear that you might rely on it: I heard him say, ‘Whoever testifies that there is no deity but Allah—sincerely and with unwavering conviction in his heart—will enter Paradise and the Fire shall never touch him.’ (1)”’”
Abū al-Ghanāʾim ibn Maḥāsin al-Miʿmār read this aloud to us, saying: My maternal grandfather, Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Naṣr, the judge of Ḥarrān, related it to us; ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Dūshābī also related it to us. (h)
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān likewise informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm informed us; and Sitt al-Ahl bint al-Nāṣiḥ informed us—