al-Ḥasan Māghamma⦗1⦘, ʿUbayd al-ʿIjl, Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ, Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī, and great crowds besides.
We were informed by Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Zāhid; he told us that Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Daqqāq and al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām in Baghdad had narrated to him. (ḥā’)
We were likewise informed by ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim, through Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī. They said: we were informed by Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmawī, and I read this before Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, who informed us that Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb al-Zāhid said:
We were informed by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naqqūr, who said: ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Sukkarī narrated to us; he said: Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī narrated to us; he said: Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn narrated to us in 227 AH; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn Mujālid narrated to us, from Bayān, from Wabra, from Hammām, who said:
ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir said, “I saw the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—when no one was with him except five male slaves, two women, and Abū Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him.”⦗2⦘
Al-Bukhārī also recorded it, through ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn Maʿīn.
(1) That is the form of the name given here. In al-Ibar, 2/83, he calls him ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Samad and gives him the nickname ʿAllan Ma-Ghumma; the same appears in Tarikh Baghdad, 12/28, which also records his kunya (teknonym) as Abu al-Hasan. Tarikh Baghdad, 1/388, cites Abu Nuʿaym as saying, on the authority of Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Kazzal, that Yahya ibn Maʿin used to coin nicknames for his companions: he called Muhammad ibn Ibrahim “Murabbaʿ,” al-Husayn ibn Muhammad “ʿUbayd al-ʿAjl,” Salih ibn Muhammad “Jazara,” Muhammad ibn Salih “Kilja,” and ʿAli ibn ʿAbd al-Samad “ʿAllan Ma-Ghumma.” These men were among his senior pupils and leading hadith scholars.
(2) Reported by al-Bukhari, 7/129 (Book of Merits, chapter on the conversion of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq), and again at 7/16–17 through the isnad of Ahmad ibn Abi al-Tayib. Ibn Hajar explains that the “slaves” mentioned are Bilal, Zayd ibn Haritha, and ʿAmir ibn Fuhayra, the client of Abu Bakr, all of whom embraced Islam early alongside Abu Bakr. Al-Tabarani, through ʿUrwa, relates that ʿAmir was tortured for the sake of Allah until Abu Bakr bought and freed him. Abu Fuhayha, the client of Safwan ibn Umayya ibn Khalaf, converted when Bilal did; Umayya tortured him, whereupon Abu Bakr purchased and manumitted him. The fifth person is plausibly Shaqran: Ibn al-Sakan, in Kitab al-Sahaba, citing ʿAbd Allah ibn Dawud, states that the Prophet, peace be upon him, inherited both him and Umm Ayman from his father. As for the two women, they are Khadija and either Umm Ayman or Sumayya.