through a reading aloud to him in Rabī‘ al-Ākhir 596 AH: Abū al-Fadā’il Nāsir ibn Mahmūd ibn Alī al-Qudsī al-Sā’igh and Abū al-Qāsim Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Muqātil al-Sūsī informed us through a reading aloud to them. They both said:
Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Zuhayr al-Mālikī informed us: Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Shujā‘ al-Rab‘ī al-Mālikī narrated to us: Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ubayd Allāh al-Qattān informed us: Khaythamah narrated to us: al-Abbās ibn al-Walīd narrated to us: Uqbah ibn Alqamah narrated to us: Sa‘īd ibn Abd al-Azīz narrated to us, from Atiyyah ibn Qays, from Abd Allāh ibn Amr, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“I saw the pillar of the Book taken away from beneath my pillow. I looked, and there it was—a radiant light, borne toward Greater Syria. Indeed, when tribulations arise, faith will be in Greater Syria.”
He was born in 589 AH and died in Sha‘bān 672 AH.
The Third Hadith
The imam Taqī al-Dīn Abū Muhammad Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī al-Yusr al-Tanūkhī informed us, through a reading aloud to him while I listened, in 669 AH: Abū Tāhir Barakāt ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khushū‘ī informed us through a reading aloud to him: Abū Muhammad Abd al-Karīm ibn Hamzah ibn