23- I read aloud to Abū al-Maʿālī ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣābir al-Sulamī, and he said: “The noble Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusaynī informed you; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Kittānī related; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUthmān narrated; my uncle Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Maʿrūf narrated; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd narrated; Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah transmitted; ʿAbdah ibn Sulaymān narrated from Abū Ḥayyān, from Ḥabīb ibn (Abī)(1) Thābit, that Ḥassān ibn Thābit recited before the Prophet ﷺ:
I testify, by Allah’s leave, that Muḥammad
is the Messenger of the One who is above the heavens, on high;
And I—Abū Yaḥyā—and Yaḥyā, the two of us together,
have a deed that our Lord will graciously accept;
And that the brother of al-Aḥqāf, when he stands among his people,
speaks by Allah’s very Self among them and rules with fairness.(2)
24- Abū al-Qāsim Yaḥyā ibn Asʿad ibn Bawsh informed us; Abū al-ʿIzz Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn (Kādis)(3) narrated; Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jāzirī narrated; Abū al-Faraj al-Muʿāfā ibn Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā (al-Jarīrī)(5) narrated; Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Anbārī narrated; Muḥammad ibn al-Marzubān narrated; Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jawharī narrated; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk narrated; al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī ibn ʿAwānah ibn al-Ḥakam narrated, saying, “When …”