Aḥmad ibn al-Muʾayyad and Aḥmad ibn Muʾmin informed us, saying: Abū al-Maḥāsin Muḥammad ibn al-Sayyid al-Anṣārī informed us; Naṣr ibn Aḥmad al-Sūsī informed us; Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isfarāyīnī informed us; Abū al-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Idrīsī informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUmar al-Nāqid narrated to us; Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥarīrī ⦗1⦘ told us.
Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī said: Abū Umayyah narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Bakr and ʿUbayd Allah ibn Mūsā narrated to us. They said: Mahdī ibn Maymūn narrated to us, from Wāṣil al-Aḥdab, from al-Maʿrūr ibn Suwayd, from Abū Dharr who said:
“We were travelling with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. In the middle of the night he withdrew from us and stayed away for a long time; then he returned and said, ‘A messenger from my Lord came to me and told me that whoever from my community dies without associating anything with Allah will enter Paradise.’
“I said, ‘Even if he commits fornication and theft?’
“He replied, ‘Even if he commits fornication and theft.’”
This version is agreed upon, transmitted through Shuʿbah from Wāṣil. ⦗2⦘
Those who passed away in the year twenty-one included: al-Ṭaḥāwī, Makḥūl al-Bayrūtī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Aʿmashī, Aḥmad ibn Muqrīʾ of Damascus—known as Ibn Dhakwān, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith al-ʿAssāl, Abū ʿAlī ibn Razīn al-Bāshānī al-Harawī, Ḥātim ibn Maḥbūb al-Harawī, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Hurayrah al-Iṣbahānī, Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad—the brother of Zubayr the ḥāfiẓ, and the Muʿtazilī shaykh Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī ⦗3⦘ ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Abī —