Ahmad ibn Salamah transmitted to us in his book from Masʿud ibn Abī Manṣūr, and I read it aloud to Isḥāq al-Asadī, who said: Ibn Khalīl informs you; Masʿud informs us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informs us; Abū Nuʿaym informs us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr al-Ṭūsī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aslam narrated to us; Yaʿlā narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah: that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The most complete of the believers in faith are those who possess the finest character.” (1)
Through this same chain Abū Nuʿaym said: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ghiṭrīfī narrated to us; Ibn Khuzaymah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Aslam narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Ḥakam ibn Maysarah narrated to us; Ibn Jurayj narrated, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was never seen—or he said: I never saw him—sitting among his Companions with his legs outstretched.” (2) This is a singular report.
Isḥāq informed us; Ibn Khalīl informed us; al-Labbān informed us; al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Muʾaddib narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Baṭṭah narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad al-Madīnī narrated to us; Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṭūsī in Mecca—Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim, the servant and close companion of Muḥammad ibn Aslam—said: I heard Muḥammad ibn Aslam say, “The Jahmiyya allege that the Quran is created, and by this they have fallen into associating others in …”