Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to us—in the year 294 AH—saying: Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid related to us; al-Khiḍr ibn ʿAbdān related to us; ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ related to us; Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hārūn related to us; Khaythamah ibn Sulaymān reported to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf reported to us; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd reported to us; Shuʿayb—meaning the son of Abī Ḥamzah—on the authority of Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Goodness is fastened to the forelocks of horses.” (1)
239 – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥafṣ, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥarashī
The Imām, muftī, and jurist: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥarashī al-Naysābūrī al-Hīrī, father of the Imām Abū ʿAmr.
He heard ḥadith from Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm, ʿAffān ibn Muslim, Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb, ʿAbdān ibn ʿUthmān, Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways, and their peers, and he excelled in jurisprudence.
Those who transmitted from him include Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak al-Mustamli, Abū ʿAmr al-Hīrī, Abū Bakr ibn Khuzaymah, and others.
Abū ʿAmr al-Hīrī said: I heard my father say, “I asked al-Qaʿnabī, ‘Why do you report nothing from Shuʿbah except a single ḥadith?’ He replied, ‘He found me burdensome, so he would not narrate to me.’”
Ibn Khuzaymah said: “The first person to carry al-Shāfiʿī’s knowledge to Khurāsān was Muḥammad ibn …”