and ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Hāshimī, the associate of Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī; the reliable hadith scholar of Nishapur, Makkī ibn ʿAbdān al-Tamīmī; the Qur’an reciter (muqriʾ) of Baghdad, Abū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī; the long-lived Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, steward of Abū Ṣakhrah; and a number of others.
Zaynab bint Kindi in Baalbek informed us, saying: Zaynab bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shaʿrī informed us; ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī informed us; Abū Saʿīd Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Khashshāb informed us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zakariyyā the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan the ḥāfiẓ narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Bishr narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Sumayy, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “An accepted pilgrimage (ḥajj mabrūr) has no reward except Paradise.” (1)
Muslim recorded it through the route of ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar.
- Ibn Abī al-Azhar — Muḥammad ibn Mazīd ibn Maḥmūd al-Khuzāʿī*
The muhaddith Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Mazīd ibn Maḥmūd ibn Manṣūr al-Khuzāʿī, a Baghdadi better known as Ibn Abī al-Azhar, was a shaykh of great age whose narrations are regarded as unsound.
He transmitted from Luwayn (2), Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl, al-Ḥusayn al-Iḥtiyāṭī, and Abū Kurayb.