1254 – Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hamīd al-Wāsitī narrated to me; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrated to us; he said: My father—may Allah have mercy on him—narrated to me; he said: Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb al-Mājishūn narrated to us; he said: “I knew our senior scholars and those from whom we acquired knowledge, including Rabīʿa ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Rahmān, Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, and ʿUthmān ibn Muhammad al-Akhshanī. They would say: ‘Abū Bakr was the first man to embrace Islam