Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah related to us; al-Hasan ibn Muhammad related to us; my uncle, the ḥadith master Abū al-Qāsim, related to us; ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAlawī related to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muhammad, the overseer of the Sumeisatiyyah endowment (1), related to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī related to us; Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī related to us; Ahmad ibn Sulaymān reported to us; Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us; al-Jurayrī related, from Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, from Mutarrif, from ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn:
“The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to one of his Companions, ‘Have you fasted anything of the sarar (the closing days) of this month?’
He replied, ‘No.’
He said, ‘Then when you have completed the fast of Ramadan, fast two days in its place.’”
Muslim (2) transmitted it through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah from Yazīd.
174 – Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah ibn al-Ṣalt ibn ʿUṣfūr al-Baṣrī *
A leading ḥadith master, eminent scholar, and trustworthy critic—Abū Yūsuf al-Sadūsī, originally of Basra and later resident in Baghdad, author of the Great Musnad. Unparalleled in hadith analysis, some thirty volumes of his Musnads were completed; had the work been finished it would have filled one hundred volumes.
Birth: around 180 AH,