Al-Mustamlī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj related to us; Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ related to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ādam related to us; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khurasānī, from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Abī Shaybah (1), from Ibn Ṭāwūs, from his father, said: “There is no ṣadaqah due on the awqāṣ (2).”
Al-Sarrāj said: I asked Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh about this report, and he narrated it to me.
I say: The awqāṣ are the fractional remainders.
Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Mustamlī also transmitted—from Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād—who said:
“When you see an Iraqi speaking against Aḥmad, accuse him concerning his religion; when you see a Khurasānī speaking against Isḥāq, suspect him; and when you see a Basran speaking against Wahb ibn Jarīr, accuse him concerning his religion.”
Abū Bakr ibn Nuʿaym said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Dhuhlī say:
“I met our associate Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm in the year 199 AH in Baghdad. The luminaries of hadith had gathered in al-Ruṣāfah—among them Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and others. The foremost seat in the assembly belonged to Isḥāq, and he was the spokesman.”
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ismāʿīl al-ʿArūḍī said: al-Nasāʾī narrated to us; he said: