sixty, or one hundred and sixty-one.
I say: He passed away at the beginning of the year 161 AH.
With my reading before Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Tāj al-Umana’, the chain of transmission is as follows: Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad → Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir → Abū Yaʿlā al-Ṣābūnī → ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī → Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn al-Ḍarīs → Aḥmad ibn Yūnus → Zāʾidah → ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr → Ibn Abī Laylā → Muʿādh, who said:
“A man came and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! A man encountered a woman and did with her what a husband ordinarily does with his wife, except that he did not have intercourse with her.’
The Prophet said, and Allah—exalted is He—then revealed: ‘Establish prayer at the two ends of the day…’ ⦗1⦘.
He told him, ‘Perform wuḍū’ and pray.’
I asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, is this ruling meant solely for him, or is it general for everyone?’
He replied, ‘It is general for all people—or for all Muslims ⦗2⦘.’ ”
Al-Tirmidhī and al-Nasāʾī recorded this report through the narration of Zāʾidah. Its weakness is that Shuʿbah transmitted it from ʿAbd al-Malik as a mursal report, omitting the name of Muʿādh, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān never met Muʿādh.
140 – Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān ibn Shuʿbah al-Harawī (ʿ)
The Imām, the scholar of Khurāsān, Abū Saʿīd al-Harawī, who later settled in Naysābūr, then