ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (1) informed us; Mansūr ibn Sand informed us; the ḥadith master Abū Ṭāhir informed us; the ḥadith master Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Iṣbahānī informed us; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Haytham, the preacher, informed us—in the year 417 AH—saying: the judge Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʿAssāl narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Yūnus narrated to us; Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm, who said:
From Abū Saʿīd who related: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ awoke one night and saw that a mouse had seized the lamp-wick and climbed up to the ceiling, ready to set the house on fire. He cursed it and permitted the pilgrim in ihram to kill it (2). This is a singular hadith, counted among the fine individual reports (3).
Abū Manṣūr Maʿmar ibn Aḥmad al-Zāhid said:
The one whose knowledge once tended humankind has died—
his name and noble repute continue to benefit.
The guardians of hadith, its masters, have departed as well—
of those we met, and for the people he was sufficient.