ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim informed us on several occasions; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad read it to us while I was in the fourth session; ʿAlī ibn al-Musallam then related it, followed by al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalab, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghassānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-ʿAlāʾ in Baghdad, Aḥmad ibn Budayl, Jābir ibn Nūḥ al-Ḥimmanī, and finally ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
“ʿUmar brought a horse to the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—whereupon he said, ‘Donate this in the cause of Allah.’ Some time later ʿUmar saw the same horse being offered for sale in the market, so he informed the Prophet and asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, may I buy it?’ He replied, ‘Do not buy it, and do not take back your gift.’ (1)
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ānami informed us; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl transmitted it; and Masʿūd ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Jammāl likewise (ḥ). I was also informed by Aḥmad ibn Salāmah, from Masʿūd, through Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād, Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ, Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar as-Simsār, Aḥmad ibn ʿiṣām, Wahb ibn Jarīr, and finally ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
“The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—prohibited the fortified towers (ātām) of Medina from being demolished.” (2)
It is said that the narrations of ʿUbayd Allāh number four hundred hadiths, and I am inclined to think they are even more than that.
130 – Yazīd ibn ʿUbaydah al-Sakūnī (Q), son of Abū al-Muhājir, was among the scholars of Damascus.