1359 — Al-Firyābī also reported to us, saying: Mahmūd ibn Ghaylān al-Marwazī narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Razzāq narrated to us, saying: Maʿmar informed us, from Āsim, from Zirr, from Alī—may Allah ⦗1888⦘ be pleased with him—who said: “We did not consider it unlikely that divine tranquility would speak through Umar’s tongue—may Allah be pleased with him.”

Muhammad ibn al-Husayn—may Allah have mercy on him—said: The hadith of Sāriya also belongs in this chapter on the virtues of Umar—may Allah be pleased with him—for this is its proper place.