Muʿādh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, about the moaning of the palm-trunk, whereupon it was said, “This is ʿAbd.”
Others who transmitted from him include: his son Muḥammad; Bakr ibn al-Marzubān; Shurayḥ ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh al-Nasafī the ascetic; al-Makkī ibn Nūḥ the Qurʾān-reciter; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Bujayr; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd ibn ʿĀmir al-Samarqandī; Ibrāhīm ibn Khuzaym ibn Qumayr al-Shāshī; Abū Muʿādh al-ʿAbbās ibn Idrīs ibn al-Faraj al-Kissī; Abū Saʿīd Ḥātim ibn Ḥasan al-Shāshī; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Faḍl ibn Abī al-Bazzāz; Abū ʿUmar Ḥafṣ ibn Būkhāsh; Salmān ibn Isrāʾīl ibn Jābir al-Khujandī; Sahl ibn Shādhawayh al-Bukhārī; Abū Saʿīd al-Shāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥabīb al-Nasafī; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Manṣūr al-Kashshī; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn al-Hudhayl al-Nasafī; Maḥmūd ibn ʿAnbar ibn Nuʿaym al-Azdī al-Nasafī; and others from Transoxiana whose conditions are unknown to us.
Abū Ḥātim al-Bustī states in his book al-Thiqat: “ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ḥumayd ibn Naṣr al-Kashshī—who is the one popularly called ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd—was among those who compiled and authored works. He died in 249 AH.”
I say: As for the claim that he died in Damascus, it is a gross error, for the man never saw Damascus—neither during his travels nor in his old age.
A copy of al-Muntakhab with an elevated chain has come into our possession, and subsequently into the hands of our younger children (1).