hundred. He is the first person mentioned in The History of Egypt compiled by the ḥadith master, Imām Qutb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Munīr al-Ḥalabī (1)—may Allah prolong his life—for he opened the work with a man named Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah, seeking blessing through the Prophet’s name, peace and blessings be upon him.
I read this aloud before Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Qudāmah, and Imām Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qudāmah conveys it to you in Ṣafar of the year 618 AH.
Abū al-Fath Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī narrated to us; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn narrated to us; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Narsī narrated to us in 426 AH; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Shākir reported to us; Muḥammad ibn Sābiq reported to us; Mālik ibn Mighwal reported to us; I heard Abū Ḥuṣayn say: Abū Wāʾil said:
“When Sahl ibn Ḥunayf returned from Ṣiffīn, we went to him to enquire about the affair. He said, ‘Be suspicious of your own opinion. I remember myself on the day of Abū Jandal: had I been able to oppose the command of the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ, I would have done so—and Allah and His Messenger know best. Never have we slung our swords over our shoulders for a matter that alarmed us except that it carried us on to something we already recognised before that matter. Whenever we blocked one torrent (2), another torrent burst upon us (3), and we do not know how to deal with it.’”
Al-Bukhārī (4) also recorded this report, through al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq al-Marwazī from Ibn Sābiq, thereby obtaining an even higher chain of transmission.