the daughter of Aḥmad al-Kātibah; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir likewise informed us (ḥ).
Sunqur ibn ʿAbd Allāh in Aleppo also informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Thābit ibn Bundār al-Baqqāl informed us; my father informed us. They both said:
ʿUthmān ibn Dūst al-ʿAllāf informed us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bazzāz informed us; Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslama narrated to us; Mālik informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The two parties to a sale each retains the right of option so long as they have not yet separated, except in a sale with a stipulated option.” (1)
And through this same chain as far as al-Qaʿnabī, Mālik said: “We have no well-known interpretation for this, nor any practice that is acted upon.” (2)
I say: The majority of the imams have in fact put this hadith into practice, the first of them being ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, its transmitter. Allah knows best.
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Hamadhānī informed us—while I read to him; Abū al-Barakāt al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad informed us in the year 620 AH; Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Qaysī informed us.
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sulamī and Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūrī likewise informed us; they said:
Abū al-Qāsim Ibn Ṣaṣrā informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Asadī and Abū Yaʿlā Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī al-Thaʿlabī informed us.
ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad also informed us—