and the companion of Baqī ibn Makhlad, the traditionist ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūnus al-Qabrī (1), as well as the exemplar Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Dimashqī, custodian of the mosque just outside Bab Sharqī.

Seven fascicles of al-Maḥāmilī’s hadith, transmitted with elevated chains, have come down to us. The last people to relay his narrations with a high chain were al-Silafī, Shuhdah (2), and the preacher of Mosul.

Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq the Qurʾān-reciter informed us; Abū Hurayrah Muḥammad ibn al-Layth and Zayd ibn Hibat Allāh also informed us, saying:

Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak ibn Qafargal informed us; ʿĀṣim ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Fārisī informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Mālik narrated, from Rabīʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Ḥanẓalah ibn Qays al-Zurqī, that he asked Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj about leasing farmland. He replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade the leasing of land.”

I said, “For payment in gold and silver?”

He answered, “As for gold and silver, there is no objection to that (3).”

With this same chain al-Maḥāmilī said: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us, from Khālid, from Abū Qilābah, from Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah, who said:

“I became so infested with lice that I thought every single hair on my head was crawling with them from root to tip. When the Prophet ﷺ saw my condition, he instructed me, ‘Shave,’ and thereupon this verse was revealed (4)(5).”