He also said, “A small deed may be made great by the intention behind it, and a great deed may be made small by the intention.”
Ahmad ibn Salamah, by written authorization, informed us; from ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad al-Kāghadī; Abu ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abu Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī narrated to us; Abu Isḥāq al-Ṭālqānī narrated to us; he said:
“I asked Ibn al-Mubārak about a man who performs prayer on behalf of his father and mother. He said, ‘Who transmits that report?’
“I replied, ‘Shihāb ibn Khirrāsh.’
“He said, ‘Reliable. From whom?’
“I said, ‘From al-Ḥajjāj ibn Dīnār.’
“He said, ‘Reliable. From whom?’
“I said, ‘From the Prophet ﷺ.’
“He replied, ‘Between him and the Prophet ﷺ lie stretches of desert over which camels’ necks would break.’⦗1⦘
Bībars ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Majdī informed us; Hibatullāh ibn al-Ḥasan al-Dawāmī informed us; Tajanī, the freedwoman of Ibn Wahbān, informed us; and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mardāwī informed us; Imam Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Khaṭīb, together with Tajanī al-Wahbāniyyah and Fakhr al-Nisāʾ Shuhdah, informed us (ح).
Abu al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and Aḥmad ibn Tāj al-Umamāʾ informed us, saying: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm informed us (ح).
Sitt al-Ahl bint al-Nāṣiḥ informed us; al-Bahāʾ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; they said: Shuhdah informed us; they said: Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī informed us (ح).
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Aghlabī informed us; ʿAlī ibn Mukhtār informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ informed us; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl informed us; they said:
Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥaffār informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Mujashshir narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Sufyān, from—