so that he might seek their legal opinion, but death overtook him in Ḥawrān in the year 126 AH, when he was in his early seventies.

I read aloud to Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq. Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Faraj Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz informed you, saying: My uncle Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīnawarī told us; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan told us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mahdī narrated to us; Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl the judge narrated to us; Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Zaʿfarānī narrated to us; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“Safiyyah bint Ḥuyayy began to menstruate after she had already performed the dispersal circumambulation. I mentioned this to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said, ‘Will she detain us?’ I replied, ‘O Messenger of Allah, she has already performed the dispersal circumambulation, and only then did she begin to menstruate.’ He said, ‘Then let her depart.’ (1)

And, by the same chain as far as al-Zaʿfarānī: Sufyān narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Prophet ﷺ, a similar report—except that he said, ‘Then not so, in that case.’

The first version was recorded by al-Nasāʾī, and the second by Muslim (2); both come through the narration of Ibn ʿUyaynah.

2 – Sālim Abū al-Naḍr ibn Abī Umayyah al-Madanī * (ʿ)

He was the scribe and client of ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī.

He transmitted from: Anas ibn Mālik, ʿUbayd ibn Ḥunayn, Busr ibn Saʿīd, and Sulaymān ibn—