located inside the city. He was the first to introduce the Shafiʿi school and its texts into Isfarayin, having taken them from al-Rabiʿ al-Muradi and al-Muzani.
Al-Hakim states in his History: “Abū ʿAwanah heard from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Ibn Warrah, Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān, Saʿdān, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam, al-Muzani, Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Awdī, Muḥammad ibn al-Muqriʾ, Aḥmad ibn Sinān, Asīd ibn ʿĀṣim, Hārūn ibn Sulaymān … and he named several others, after which he praised him.”
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad informed us—this was read to him—through al-Qāsim ibn Abī Saʿd al-Ṣaffār; Hibat al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥīrī informed us; and Aḥmad also informed us, from Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn al-Samʿānī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣāʿidī informed us; ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥmī informed us. They both said:
ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Abū ʿAwanah the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; Bishr ibn Maṭar narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar:
Umar came to the Prophet ﷺ after he had acquired one hundred shares of land at Khaybar, which he had purchased and consolidated. He said to the Prophet ﷺ, “I have obtained wealth the like of which I have never had before, and I wish to draw nearer to Allah with it.”
He replied, “Keep the capital intact and dedicate its yield in charity.” (1)