for whom one ought to undertake the journey, other than Isḥāq ibn Sayyār, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, and Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī.
Abū al-Maʿālī al-Abarqūhī informed us (1); al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allah related to us; Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmawī (2), Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Ibn al-Dāyah narrated to us; they said:
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslimah informed us; Abū al-Faḍl al-Zuhrī informed us; Jaʿfar al-Firyābī narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Sayyār narrated to us; Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ, from al-Muhāṣir ibn Ḥabīb, reported:
Jesus son of Mary used to say, “Whoever prays and fasts yet does not give up sins is recorded in the heavenly realm as a liar.”
In that same year passed away: Ḥanbal ibn Isḥāq (3), Aḥmad ibn al-Walīd al-Faḥḥām (4), al-Fatḥ ibn Shakhruf the ascetic (5), Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarasusī (6), Abū Ibrāhīm Aḥmad ibn Saʿd al-Zuhrī (7), Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Taghlibī (8), Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn Mājah al-Qazwīnī (9), ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥammād al-Āmulī (10), and a number of others.