he heard from Abū Muhammad al-Khallāl, Abū Tālib al-‘Ushārī, and Abū Bakr ibn Bishr, on the authority of ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar, the hadith master—that is, al-Dāraqutnī—in the material he included at the end of The Book of the Vision. He said, ‘Muhammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Fārisī narrated to us: Abū Zur‘ah al-Dimashqī narrated to us: Ahmad ibn Sālih narrated to us: Ibn Wahb narrated to us: ‘Amr ibn al-Hārith ibn Sa‘īd ibn Abī Hilāl informed me that Marwān ibn ‘Uthmān reported to him on the authority of ‘Umārah ibn ‘Āmir