their two Ṣaḥīḥ collections), and Abū Dāwūd and al-Nasāʾī in their Sunans, Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Sulamī in his Jāmiʿ, as well as Aḥmad ibn Salama, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, Mūsā ibn Hārūn, Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Marwazī, Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī al-Ẓāhirī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Shīrawayh—and his son Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq—Jaʿfar al-Firyābī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Bushtī (with a dotted shīn), al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī, Muḥammad ibn al-Naḍr al-Jārūdī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj—the last of his students—and many others besides them.
I have obtained his narration with an elevated chain of transmission.
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us: al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kātib informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Urmawī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī informed us, saying:
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslima informed us; Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī reported to us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from Hārūn ibn Riʿāb:
When death approached ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, a man sought his daughter’s hand in marriage. He said to the man, “I have made about her a statement that resembles a pledge, and I would hate to meet Allah burdened with one-third of hypocrisy.” (1)
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Tāj al-Umanāʾ informed us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd