= The Quran: “O Prophet, We have surely sent you as a witness, a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner.” The Torah likewise states: “O Prophet, We have surely sent you as a witness, a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner, and as a safeguard for the unlettered. You are My servant and My messenger; I have named you al-Mutawakkil. He is neither harsh nor hard-hearted, nor loud in the market-places; he does not repay evil with evil but forgives and pardons. He will not be taken (in death) until, through him, the crooked religion has been set straight so that people say: ‘There is no god but Allah.’ By him blind eyes will be opened, deaf ears will be made to hear, and sealed hearts will be unlocked.” (1) Al-Hafiz al-Hujjah Abu ʿAli Saʿid b. ʿUthman b. Saʿid b. al-Sakan al-Baghdadi, resident of Baghdad, d. 353 AH/964 CE; see al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/938. (2) Ibrahim b. Muhammad b. ʿUbayd, Abu Masʿud al-Dimashqi, hadith scholar and author of Kitab al-Atraf, d. 400 or 401 AH; see Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 2/1068-1070. Works of atraf list each Companion’s reports by quoting only their opening words, serving as an index. The most comprehensive is Tuhfat al-Ashraf bi-Maʿrifat al-Atraf by al-Mizzi (d. 742 AH), covering the Six Books and related works; parts edited by ʿAbd al-Samad Sharaf al-Din have appeared. See also ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi’s Dhakhaʾir al-Mawarith fi al-Dalala ʿala Mawadiʿ al-Hadith (2 vols.). (3) Cited in his Taqyid al-Muhmal wa-Tamyiz al-Mushkil concerning the narrators of the two Sahihs, 2/fol. 681.