The entirety of Ibn Abī al-Dunyā’s Book of Sincerity was transmitted to us by Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Qādir, through a reading made before him while we listened. He said: The righteous shaykha Umm Abd Allāh Zaynab bint Abī al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahīm ibn Abd al-Wāhid ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisiyya informed us. She said: Ajība bint Abī Bakr ibn Abī Ghālib informed us. She said: The two shaykhs, Abū al-Khayr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Bāghbān al-Muqaddir and Abū al-Faraj Masūd ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn al-Fadl al-Thaqafī, informed us. They said: Abū Amr Abd al-Wahhāb, son of the hadith master Abū Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Manda, informed us. He said: Abū Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Yūh al-Madīnī informed us. He said: Abū al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Abān al-Abdī al-Lanbānī informed us. He said: Abū Bakr Ibn Abī al-Dunyā—Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Ubayd ibn Sufyān al-Qurashī (1)—narrated to us, saying: