Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Yūnīnī (1), together with a number of others, transmitted to us, saying:
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar reported to us; Abū al-Waqt reported to us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāʾūdī reported to us; Ibn Ḥammūyah reported to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Khuzaym reported to us; ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim informed us, from al-Jurayrī, from Abū Naḍrah, who said that Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī narrated to me:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deliver the Friday sermon beside the trunk of a date-palm. The people said to him, “Messenger of Allah, the congregation has grown large and they would like to see you; if only you would adopt a pulpit to stand upon.”
He asked, “Who will make this for us?”
A man replied, “I will,” but he did not add, “if Allah wills.” He asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “So-and-so.” He said, “Sit down.”
He repeated the request, and another man rose and said, “Shall I make it?” He said, “Yes—if Allah wills.” He asked, “What is your name?” He replied, “Ibrāhīm.” He said, “Then make it.”
When Friday came, the people gathered for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the farthest end of the mosque. After he had ascended the pulpit, stood upon it, and faced the congregation, the trunk groaned
1 – She married while her father was still alive and bore a son called Abd al-Qadir. Together with his grandfather he heard hadith from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maqdisi (d. 737 AH), and his grandfather authorised him to transmit his book Tarikh al-Islam.
2 – His son Abu al-Darda Abd Allah, born 708 AH; his father exposed him to many teachers, he narrated hadith, and died in Dhu al-Hijja 754 AH.
3 – His son Shihab al-Din Abu Hurayra Abd al-Rahman, born 715 AH. With his father he heard numerous hadith booklets and also studied under Isa al-Mutim al-Dallal (d. 719 AH). His father compiled for him forty hadith taken from roughly one hundred shaykhs. He began teaching in 740 AH and lived on until Rabi al-Akhir 799 AH. He left a son named Muhammad who, together with his grandfather, heard hadith and was authorised by him to transmit his Tarikh al-Islam.
(1) Yunin (damma on the ya, kasra on the first nun) is a village near Baalbek. Among its eminent natives is the hadith master Sharf al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad al-Yunini al-Baalbaki al-Hanbali (d. 701 AH). The edition of Sahih al-Bukhari printed at the Egyptian Government Press in 1311 AH was collated with his personal copy, the most reliable base text for the work; it is the manuscript on which al-Qastallani relied for the letter-by-letter verification of the wording in his commentary Irshad al-Sari.