al-Karim; Hisham ibn Hassan; Hisham ibn Abu ʿAbd Allah; Harun ibn ʿAntarah; Hashim ibn Yahya al-Ghassani; Huraym ibn Sufyan; Habbār ibn ʿUqayl; al-Haytham ibn ʿAdi; and Hisham ibn Zayd.
Yazid ibn Harun; Yazid ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Nawfali; Yazid ibn ʿAmr; Yazid ibn Abu Hafs—a Kufan; Yunus ibn Rashid; Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Qattan; Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Umawi; Yahya ibn Abu Zaydah; Abu ʿUqayl Yahya ibn al-Mutawakkil; Abu al-Miqdam Yahya ibn Thaʿlabah; Yahya ibn Ayyub of Egypt; Yahya ibn al-ʿAlaʾ of Rayy; Yahya ibn Sulaym of Taʾif; Yahya ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ajlah; Yahya ibn al-Muhallab, Abu Kudaynah; Yaʿla ibn ʿUbayd; the judge Abu Yusuf Yaʿqub; Abu Bakr ibn Abi Sabrah; Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam; and Abu Bakr ibn ʿAyyash.
ʿAbd al-Hafiz ibn Badran and Yusuf ibn Ahmad informed us, saying:
Musa ibn ʿAbd al-Qadir informed us; Saʿid ibn Ahmad informed us; ʿAli ibn al-Busri informed us; Abu Tahir al-Mukhlis informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Baghawi narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Harithi narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Saʿid, from al-Qasim, from ʿAʾishah, who said:
When ʿUthman ibn Mazʿun died, the Prophet ﷺ lifted the cloth from his face, kissed him between the eyes, and wept for a long time. When the bier was raised he said, “Glad tidings to you, O ʿUthman! The world did not soil you, nor did you soil it.”
This Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah—known as al-Muḥrim—was deemed weak. (1)