al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā reported to us; Ibn Rifāʿah reported to us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the judge reported to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar reported to us; Abū al-Ṭāhir al-Madīnī reported to us; Yūnus reported to us; Ibn Wahb reported to us; Aflah ibn Ḥumayd informed me, from Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm, from Sulaymān al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “One prayer in this mosque of mine is equal to a thousand prayers elsewhere, except for the Sacred Mosque; and the congregational prayer surpasses the solitary prayer by twenty-five degrees.” (1)

243 – al-Hawrānī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd ibn Muḥammad*

The shaykh and traditionist: Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Kilābī, originally from Hawrān and later born in Sāmarrā’. He was a renowned, long-lived shaykh.

He transmitted from ʿAbbād ibn al-Walīd al-Ghubarī, ʿAbbās al-Turqufī, Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Rammādī, Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Isḥāq ibn Sayyār, Abū Bakr ibn Abī al-Dunyā, and several others.

Those who narrated from him include Tammām al-Rāzī, Yūsuf al-Mayānjī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Kilābī, Abū Sulaymān ibn Zabr, and others.

He left a single fascicle (juzʾ) that is transmitted by Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim.