I add: His narrations are found in all six of the canonical Islamic collections, although al-Bukhārī cites him only when he pairs him with another shaykh. In any case, both his reports and those of Ibn Abī Ḥāzim do not fall below the rank of ḥasan.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī told us; Jaʿfar told us; al-Silafī told us; Ismāʿīl ibn Mālik told us; Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī told me; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ the Qurʾān-reciter told us; al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Ṭūsī told us; al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār told us; al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to me, from his father, who said:

“ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Darāwardī came with a group to my father to present a book for review. Al-Darāwardī read it aloud to them, but his diction was poor—he made blatant grammatical errors. My father therefore said, ‘Woe to you, Darāwardī! You had a greater need to correct your tongue before venturing into this field than for anything else.’”

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Wabarī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Zuhri informed us; my uncle Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥāmid informed us; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Madani narrated to us; al-Darāwardī narrated, from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from Abū Hurayra:

The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said, “When a human being dies, his deeds come to an end except for three: a continuous charity, knowledge that people benefit from, or a righteous child who prays for him.”

Abu Dawud also recorded it (1) through a chain that descends from a reliable narrator, from Ibn Wahb, from Sulaymān ibn Bilāl, from al-ʿAlāʾ, with similar wording.