hadith, I feel as though I were gazing upon one of the Prophet’s Companions—may Allah reward them with goodness, for they preserved the foundation for us, and to them belongs the precedence. (1)
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Munāqib informed us, from Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ghānim; Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Saʿd al-Sammān informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muhammad ibn Maḥmūd in Tustar narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated to us; my father narrated to me; Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Hāshimī narrated to us; al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym, from ʿUbayd Allah, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
“The Prophet ﷺ performed the eclipse prayer with four rakʿahs and four prostrations.” (2)
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Saʿīd al-Naqqāsh also transmitted it: ʿAlī ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyād narrated to us; the son of Imām Aḥmad … and he reported something similar.
We were likewise informed by Abū ʿAlī al-Qalānisī; Jaʿfar informed us; al-Silafī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Mālik informed us; Abū Yaʿlā al-Khalīlī informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Salamah al-Qazwīnī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal … and he related it with similar wording.
Yūsuf ibn Zakī (3), the ḥāfiẓ, informed us in the year 94 AH; he informed us—