= Shams al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Hanbalī. (1) B reads ma‘rūf (“known”). (2) Al-Hāfiz Ibn Hajar mentions that Ibn al-Salāh supplied a chain of transmission for this report and related it in his Amālī through Abū Nu‘aym ‘Abd al-Malik ibn al-Hasan, from his maternal uncle Ya‘qūb ibn Ishāq—Abū ‘Awāna al-Isfarāyīnī, the compiler of the Sahīh—who said: “Ayyūb ibn Ishāq ibn Sāfirī narrated to us: Abū Nasr al-Tammār narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn al-Nadr al-Hārithī,” who then related the report. Al-Hāfiz commented: “Its transmitters are trustworthy, but Muhammad ibn al-Nadr was not a hadith scholar, and no report with an isnād has been transmitted from him. A number of people transmitted his sayings, including ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī…” He went on to say: “Perhaps this report reached him through some of the Isrā’īliyyāt (reports drawn from Jewish and Christian traditions). Allah knows best.” Natā’ij al-afkār, 3:289–290; al-Talkhīs, 4:317. (3) He is ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn ‘Abd al-Malik al-Qushayrī, al-Nasawī—from Nasā in Khurasan—and al-Tammār, pronounced with a short a after the t and a doubled m, a designation referring to the sale of dates. Born in 137 AH, he settled in Baghdad. He was an imam, an ascetic, devoted to worship and scrupulously pious. Abū Hātim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasā’ī and others deemed him trustworthy. He lost his sight late in life and died in Baghdad in 228 AH. May Allah have mercy on him. See Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqāt, 7:340; al-Ansāb, 3:76; Tahdhīb al-kamāl, 18:354–358; and al-Dhahabī, al-Siyar, 10:571–574. (4) Rather, Abū Nasr al-Tammār relates it from Muhammad ibn al-Nadr al-Hārithī, from Adam (peace be upon him), as stated by Ibn al-Salāh, al-Nawawī, Ibn Hajar and others. See Ibn al-Salāh, Sharh mushkil al-Wasīt, 7:247; al-Adhkār, p. 170; al-Talkhīs, 4:317; and Natā’ij al-afkār, 3:289.