and Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī, Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Hāniʾ, Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān, and others.
Ibn ʿAdī said (1): “It reached me from Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad Jazara that he once came upon the study circle of Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Simnānī while he was transmitting reports from Barakah ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī—reports that are objectionable. Ṣāliḥ therefore remarked, ‘Abū al-Ḥusayn! That is no barakah (blessing); it is a niqmah (affliction).’ ”
Abū al-Naḍr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad said: “Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Simnānī recited to us poetry of his own:
You see a man longing for a lengthened life,
Yet length of days brings no relief to his heart.
Had long life contained any real advantage,
Iblīs would not have outlived us all.”
Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥanẓalī al-Simnānī died in 303 AH.
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Tamīmī informed us, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd informed us; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Simnānī narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us; Baqiyyah narrated to us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd told me, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar:
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever catches one rakʿah—that is, one unit—of the Friday prayer or any other prayer has caught that prayer.”
Sound and singular (2).