Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī informed us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāfiʿī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbqasī (1) informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Daybulī (2) informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Azhar narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār narrated to us—conveying this very report.

And through my chain to Ibn Makhlad he said: Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-Zuhrī narrated to me. He said: ʿAlī ibn Baḥr al-Qaṭṭān related, “I heard Ibn Abī Ḥāzim say, ‘I saw al-Battī (3) standing at the head of Mālik ibn Anas.’ ”

With this same isnād: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Ḥanīn narrated to us; al-Aṣmaʿī narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, who said, “I arrived in Medina in the year 118 AH and found that Mālik already had a study circle, while Nāfiʿ had passed away.”

Likewise, with this chain: al-Ramādī narrated to us; al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; my father informed me, from Mālik, who said, “For twelve years I used to leave at the noon hour from the house of Ibn Hurmuz.” (4)

Again, with this chain: al-Ramādī narrated to us; al-Ḥakam narrated to us; Ashhab informed us, from Mālik, who said: “Ibn Shihāb narrated to me, so I said to him, ‘Repeat it for me.’ He replied, ‘No.’ I asked, ‘Was it not repeated for you?’ He said, ‘No.’ I then said, ‘Did you write it down?’ He said, ‘No,’ and he restrained the iron—meaning the bridle.”

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾayyadī informed us; Aḥmad ibn