al-Khidr al-Sulamī informed us: Abū al-Husayn Tāhir ibn Ahmad ibn Alī ibn Mahmūd al-Mahmūdī al-Ānī informed us: Abū al-Fadl Mansūr ibn Nasr ibn Abd al-Rahīm ibn Bint al-Kāghidī informed us: Abū Amr al-Hasan ibn Alī ibn al-Hasan al-Attār narrated to us: Ibrāhīm ibn Abd Allāh ibn Umar ibn Bukayr ibn al-Hārith al-Qaysī narrated to us: Wakī‘ ibn al-Jarrāh ibn Mulayh al-Ru’āsī narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Abū Sālih, from Abū Sa‘īd al-Khudrī, who said:

The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“Noah will be summoned on the Day of Resurrection and asked, ‘Did you convey the message?’ He will reply, ‘Yes.’ His people will then be summoned and asked, ‘Did he convey the message to you?’ They will reply, ‘No warner came to us; no one at all came to us.’ Noah will then be asked, ‘Who will testify for you?’ He will reply, ‘Muhammad and his nation.’”

This is His saying:

“And thus We have made you a justly balanced nation.”

He said: “‘Middle’ means ‘just.’”

He was born in 589 AH and died in Safar 672 AH.

The Fourth Hadith

The jurist Sayf al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Najm ibn Abd al-Wahhāb al-Hanbalī informed us, through a reading aloud to him while I