ʿAlī ibn Baqāʾ and Muḥammad ibn Ḥāzim informed us, saying:
Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Najm informed us; the scribe Shahdah informed us; Ẓarīf ibn Muḥammad informed us; ʿAmr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Baḥīrī informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Maḥfūẓī informed us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn informed us; then Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā, Muḥammad ibn Muslim, Abū Zurʿah, Yaʿqūb ibn Sulaymān, ʿAbbās ibn Muḥammad and al-Ṣaghānī related to us, saying:
ʿĀrim narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Abān ibn Taghlib, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī, from Abū Masʿūd, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever guides someone to a good deed will receive a reward equal to that of the one who performs it.”
Muslim also recorded it (1) through another route from al-Aʿmash.
319 – Abū ʿUmar the Judge, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb*
The eminent imām and Chief Justice, Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Ismāʿīl, the grandson of the scholar of Basra Ḥammād ibn Zayd ibn Dirham al-Azdī, their client, originally from Basra and later Baghdad, a follower of the Mālikī school.
He studied under his father, the ḥāfiẓ Yūsuf the Judge—the author of the Sunan—Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Busrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Jurjānī, Zayd ibn Akhzam, and others of their generation.