in Syria, the traditionist Ḥājib ibn Arkin al-Farghānī; the ḥadith master ʿAbdān ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Ahwāzī; the traditionist ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq ibn Zāṭiyā al-Mukharrimī; the judge Muḥammad ibn Khalaf Wakīʿ al-Akhbārī; the traditionist of Qazwīn, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn al-Ḥārith al-Asadī; and the Shāfiʿī mufti of Egypt, Abū al-Ḥasan Manṣūr ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḍarīr.

Abū Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUmar granted us permission to transmit and related: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī also informed us, saying: Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh informed us; Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Surayj narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ishkāb narrated to us; Abū Badr narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn Dharr narrated to us; Abū al-Ruṣāfah al-Bāhilī, a man from Syria, narrated to us that Abū Umāmah reported from the Messenger of Allah, who said: “Whenever the time for an obligatory prayer arrives and a person makes ablution for it, perfecting his ablution, and then offers the prayer, performing it well, Allah forgives by means of that prayer whatever sins he committed between it and the previous obligatory prayer.” (1)

By this same chain Ibn Surayj also narrated: al-Zaʿfarānī narrated to us; Wakīʿ narrated to us; al-Thawrī narrated to us, from Rabīʿah al-Raʾy, from Yazīd, the freedman of al-Munbaʿith, from Zayd ibn Khālid, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about found property (luqaṭah). He replied, “Announce it publicly for a year; if its owner appears, give it to him; otherwise, make use of it.” (2)