Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Munqidh al-Khawlānī—through another route—narrated to us.
Aḥmad ibn al-Muʾayyad also informed us; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; Hibat Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us. He said:
“It was recited before ʿAbd Allah ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath while I was listening: ‘Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ has transmitted this to you.’ They both said:
‘Ibn Wahb narrated to us’—and these are Aḥmad’s very words—‘Makhrama ibn Bukayr informed me, from his father, who said: I heard Yūnus ibn Sayf transmit from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said:
ʿĀʾisha reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “There is no day on which Allah frees more servants from the Fire than the Day of ʿArafah.”’
Ibrāhīm ibn Munqidh added: ‘Indeed, He draws near and then boasts of them before the angels.’ ⦗1⦘
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; they said:
al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Makhzūmī informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Rifāʿa informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khilaʿī informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Naḥḥās informed us; Abū al-Ṭāhir Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr al-Madīnī informed us; Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; he said: Aflah ibn Ḥumayd informed me, from Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm, from Salmān al-Aghar, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “One prayer in this mosque of mine is equivalent to a thousand prayers elsewhere, except for the Sacred Mosque; and congregational prayer surpasses a solitary prayer by twenty-five degrees.” ⦗2⦘