Reports Transmitted by Some of His Own Teachers from Him (1)
ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Muʿaddil informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us; and Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī (2) likewise informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Khaṭīb informed us. They both said:
Abū al-Fath ibn al-Baṭṭī (3) informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Anbārī informed us—in Muḥarram of the year 484 AH; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-ʿAṭṭār related to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥārith Abū Bakr al-Bāghandī narrated to us; ʿUbayd ibn Muḥammad al-Nassāj narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Shabīb narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Yūnus ibn Yazīd, from al-Zuhrī, who said, “A man from the people of Medina named Mālik ibn Anas narrated to me, from Saʿd ibn Isḥāq, from his aunt Zaynab, from Abū Saʿīd (4):
that he had gone out in pursuit of some laborers he had hired. Afterwards he came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ …” He then reported the remainder of the account in wording similar to what the others relate.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah also informed us, on the authority of a group, that Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād told them: Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Ibn al-Ṣawwāf and Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; they said:
“Al-Bāghandī narrated to us; ʿUbayd al-Nassāj narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Shabīb narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī, from Mālik ibn Anas, from Saʿd ibn Isḥāq, from his aunt …”