, al-Ruʿaynī, and others.

Al-Dāraqutnī said, “People criticize him, yet nothing is evident about him except good.”

Ibn ʿAdī said, “He is suspected with regard to what he says about Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād because of his staunch opposition to the proponents of opinion.”

Ibn Yūnus said, “Abū Bishr was a craftsman, and the scholars considered him weak.” He also said, “He died at al-ʿArj—between Mecca and Medina—in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of the year 310 AH.”

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad and Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmayrah narrated to us, saying: al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣabbāḥ narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rifāʿah narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the judge narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Buhzād al-Fārisī narrated to us; Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Khalaf narrated to us; Qabīṣah narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Jābir, who said:

The Prophet ﷺ said, “I begin with what Allah began with: ‘Indeed, Ṣafā and Marwah are among the symbols of Allah.’” ⦗1⦘

Ibn Ṭāriq narrated to us; Ibn Khalīl narrated to us; al-Muʾayyad ibn al-Ukhuwwah narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd and Manṣūr ibn al-Ḥusayn narrated to us, saying: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Abū Bishr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr Abū Ghassān narrated to us; Ḥakkām ibn Salm narrated to us; ʿUthmān ibn Zāʾidah narrated to us, from al-Zubayr ibn ʿAdī, from Anas, who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away.”