—Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zuhayr al-Tustarī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAqīl narrated to us; Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind, from Abū al-Mushir, from Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever fasts one day before his death, seeking Allah’s Face, shall enter Paradise.”
This ḥadīth is singular, and I do not know this Successor, nor did Abū Aḥmad mention him (1) in al-Kunā.
Those who died in the same year were:
Muḥammad ibn Jarīr;
The Qur’an-reciter of Baghdad, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ṣawwāf—the companion of Abū Ḥamdūn;
Abū Muḥammad Khālid ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid al-Ṣaffār—the companion of Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn;
The Musnid of Egypt, Abū Shaybah Dāwūd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī;
al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl ibn Shādhān, the reciter of Rayy;
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Bisṭām al-Zaʿfarānī;
ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Bajalī al-Maqāniʿī;
The ḥāfiẓ Abū Bishr al-Dūlābī;
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Fayyaḍ al-Dimashqī; and
The ḥadīth scholar Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī.