The second of the two fascicles deals with purification and the Friday congregational prayer. In his day al-Būṣīrī alone possessed a particularly elevated chain for them, and Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr has transmitted both to me from al-Būṣīrī, so that only five transmitters separate me from al-Nasāʾī in that chain.

I also own a fascicle of al-Ṭabarānī’s narrations from al-Nasāʾī that has likewise reached us with a lofty chain.

In addition, a large section that al-Silafī selected from the Sunan has come down to us. We heard it from Shaykh Abū al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Munajjā al-Tanūkhī, who said: “Jaʿfar al-Hamadānī related to us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī related to us; al-Dūnī and Badr ibn Dulaf al-Farakī related to us, each having heard it from al-Kassār, who said: Abū Bakr ibn al-Sunnī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb informed us; Qutaybah informed us; al-Layth informed us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ:

‘He forbade urinating into stagnant water.’ (1)

ʿAlī ibn Ḥujr informed us; ʿUbaydah ibn Ḥumayd informed us, from Yūsuf ibn Suhayb, from Ḥabīb ibn Yasār, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whoever does not trim his moustache is not one of us.’ (2)

Abū ʿAlī the ḥāfiẓ said: I asked al-Nasāʾī, ‘What is your opinion of Baqiyyah?’ He replied, ‘If he explicitly says “ḥaddathanā” or “akhbaranā,” then he is reliable.’

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Marāghī said: I heard al-Nasāʾī say: ‘Muḥammad ibn—’