and a host of Isfahanis, the last of them to depart this life being the long-lived Abū Muḥammad ibn Fāris, the teacher of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym.
Muhammad ibn Qaymaz al-Daqīqī informed us; Muhammad ibn Naṣr al-Ruṣāfī informed us; Khalīl ibn Badr informed us (ḥ).
Isḥāq ibn Ṭāriq likewise informed us; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl informed us; Khalīl al-Rārānī⦗1⦘ informed us—together with Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī (ḥ).
The jurist Aḥmad ibn Faraj, along with several others, also related to us. They said: Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim informed us; Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī (ḥ) informed us.
Aḥmad ibn Salāmah further reported to us, on the authority of al-Rārānī; they both said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād and Yaḥyā Muḥḍar related to us; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris read to us—in 344 AH—who said: Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us, in 257 AH⦗2⦘, who said: Abū Usāmah narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, who said:
“I have never seen anyone more knowledgeable in medicine than ʿĀʾishah. I asked, ‘Aunt, from whom did you learn medicine?’ She replied, ‘I would overhear people prescribing remedies to one another, so I memorised them.’”⦗3⦘
By this same chain Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt also narrated to us; Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us; from Ibn Abī Dhīb; from Saʿd ibn Khālid; from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab; from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUthmān:
A physician asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about using a frog in a medicinal preparation, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade killing it.⦗4⦘