Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us, saying:
Al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Makhzūmī reported to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rifāʿah transmitted to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan communicated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Bazzāz related to us; Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr informed us; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah:
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “By Allah, I surely ask Allah’s forgiveness and repent to Him more than seventy times a day.” (1)
127 – ʿUqayl ibn Khālid Abū Khālid al-Aylī * (ʿ)
Ibn ʿAqīl, the ḥāfiẓ, the Imām, Abū Khālid al-Aylī, a client of the household of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān.
He narrated extensively and with precision from Ibn Shihāb, and also from: ʿIkrimah; ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb (2); al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī; al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad; Nāfiʿ, the client of Ibn ʿUmar; ʿIrāk ibn Mālik; Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh; his father Khālid ibn ʿAqīl (3); his uncle Ziyād ibn ʿAqīl (4); Salamah ibn Kuhayl; and others.
He also descended to narrate from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah and Ibn Isḥāq.
Those who transmitted from him include: his son Ibrāhīm; his nephew Salāmah ibn Rūḥ; and his companion Yūnus ibn Yazīd,