of hadith—not of the first-rank ḥuffāẓ—and I have mentioned him only because of the breadth of his mastery of the Arabic tongue, his trustworthiness, and the loftiness of his chains of transmission.
Those who narrated from him include: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Razqūwayh; Ibn Manda; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim; the judge Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Mundhir; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Bishrān; the judge Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Maḥāmilī; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Razzāz; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī; Abū ʿAlī ibn Shādhān; and many others.
I have come across four fascicles of his narrations.
I read to Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Zāhid—Ẓafar ibn Sālim in Baghdad, in the year 620 AH, informed us; Hibat Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Shiblī, in 557 AH, informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿUthmān informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, in 407 AH, informed us; Abū ʿUmar Ghulām Thaʿlab related to us; Mūsā ibn Sahl al-Washshāʾ related to us; Abū al-Naḍr related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit ibn Thawbān related to us; Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyya, on the authority of Abū Munīb al-Jurashī, on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I have been sent, on the eve of the Hour, with the sword so that Allah alone—without partner—may be worshipped. My livelihood has been placed beneath the shade of my spear, humiliation and abasement have been ordained for those who oppose my command, and whoever imitates a people is counted among them.”
Its chain of transmission is acceptable. (1)