ʿAlī; ʿĪsā said, “ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd narrated to us,” and al-Ḥasan said, “Jaʿfar ibn Munīr narrated to us.” They both said: “Abū Ṭāhir al-Salafī narrated to us”—[alternate chain].
ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ghanī also informed us; ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us. Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Qudāmah informed us. They said: “Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī narrated to us.” He—and al-Salafī—said: “Naṣr ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Muʾayyad narrated to us; Zayd ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUthmān narrated to us.” They both said: “ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Muʾaddib narrated to us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ narrated to us; Wahb narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from ʿAbd Allāh:
Whenever he set out on a journey he would say, ‘O Allah, grant a conveyance that conveys to good—Your pleasure and Paradise; truly You have power over all things.’⦗1⦘
150 – Saʿdān Abū ʿUthmān ibn Naṣr ibn Manṣūr al-Thaqafī*
The shaykh, the scholar, the traditionist, the reliable—Abū ʿUthmān Saʿdān ibn Naṣr ibn Manṣūr al-Thaqafī, a Baghdadi cloth-merchant. His given name was Saʿīd, but he was nicknamed Saʿdān.
He heard ḥadith from: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; Abū Muʿāwiyah; Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarāḥ; Muʿammar ibn Sulaymān al-Raqī; Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh; ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim; Abū Qatādah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid; Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd; Salamah ibn Sālim al-Balkhī; ʿUmar ibn Shabīb al-Musallī⦗2⦘; Shabābah ibn Sawwār; Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqasānī; and Mūsā ibn—