Al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān al-Tustarī—he is the one who transmitted it from al-Qutaʿī.

I say: ʿAbdān was a reliable ḥāfiẓ, and who is wholly free of slips? He lived for ninety years and some months, and he passed away at the end of the year 306 AH.

Three fascicles of his narrations, borne by an elevated chain, have come into my possession.

Those who died the same year include: the jurist of the age, Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. ʿUmar b. Surayj in Baghdad; the leading musnid of Iraq, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ṣūfī; the transmitter ʿAlī b. Isḥāq b. Zāṭiyā; the judge Muḥammad b. Khalaf Wakīʿ; Muḥammad b. Masʿūd al-Asadī, the muḥaddith of Qazwīn; and the Shaykh of the Path, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad b. al-Jallāʾ.

Aḥmad b. Hibat Allāh b. ʿAsākir read this to me, reporting from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz b. Muḥammad, who reported from Zāhir b. Ṭāhir, who reported from Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who reported from Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, who reported from ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā, who said: Tālūt—namely Ibn ʿAbbād—narrated to us; he said: Ḥarb b. Surayj narrated to us; he said: Abū al-Mahazzim narrated to us, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

“My beloved, Abū al-Qāsim (peace and blessings be upon him), enjoined three things upon me: bathing every Friday, performing the witr prayer before sleep, and fasting three days of each month.”

Its text is well preserved (1), but Abū al-Mahazzim—Yazīd b. Sufyān—is unanimously deemed weak (2).