associating others with Him in that, without even realizing it, for Allah—exalted is He—has made it clear that He does indeed speak. He said: “I have chosen you above the people by My messages and by My words” (Al-Aʿrāf 7:144); and He said: “Allah spoke to Moses directly” (Al-Nisāʾ 4:164); and He said: “O Moses, indeed I am your Lord” (Ṭā Hā 20:11); and He said: “Indeed, I am Allah; there is no deity except Me, so worship Me.” (1) (Ṭā Hā 20:14).
One of the scholars remarked, “In his day Muḥammad ibn Aslam was compared to Ibn al-Mubārak.” Whenever Zanjūyah ibn Muḥammad related ḥadīth from Muḥammad ibn Aslam, he would say, “The devout, godly ascetic has narrated to us.”
71 – Al-Ribāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm * (B, M, D, T, N)
The Imām, ḥadīth master, authoritative proof, and commander of the ribāṭ, Abū ʿAbd Allah Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Marwazī, al-Ribāṭī, known as al-Ashqar, who resided in Nīshāpūr.
He heard ḥadīth from Wakīʿ, ʿAbd al-Razzaq, Wahb ibn Jarīr, Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubʿī, Isḥāq al-Salūlī, Abū ʿĀṣim, and their peers.
Those who reported from him include al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, al-Nasāʾī, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib, al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Qabbānī, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Thaqafī, and many others.