with them. So I produced their ḥadiths for him and arranged that every day he would copy 100 ḥadiths.

Ibn ʿAdī said: ʿAbdān narrated to us; Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Salamah narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us—then he cited a ḥadith.

That is how he phrased it, but the narrator is actually ʿAmr b. Sawwād (1). ʿAbdān would slip on this point: sometimes he said it as just related, and at other times he said, “Muḥammad b. ʿAmr.” It is truly ʿAmr b. Sawwād, yet our awe of ʿAbdān kept us from correcting him.

He also narrated to us a ḥadith containing the name Ashras, but he pronounced it “Rashras,” and I hesitated to challenge him.

Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Abū ʿAlī say:

Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Surayj arrived in ʿAskar while I was there, so I approached him. He told me, “When you are in the presence of ʿAbdān, ask.”

He entered, and I asked Abū Muḥammad about a ḥadith. He replied, “Al-Qutaʿī narrated it to us; Muḥammad b. Bakr al-Bursānī informed us; Ibn ʿAwn narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Sālim, from his father, concerning raising the hands in prayer when one bows and when one rises (2).”

Al-Ḥākim said: I then asked Abū ʿAlī, “What is the flaw in this transmission?” He answered, “I do not know.”

I suggested, “Perhaps it should be Ibn Jurayj instead of Ibn ʿAwn.”

He replied, “That is not how al-Bursānī has it from Ibn Jurayj.”

He then added, “ʿAbdān is sound, and he read it to us from his own master copy.”

It was also said, “And he had stolen it.”