listened, in Rabī' al-Awwal, 675 AH. I said to him:

Abū Sa'īd Khalīl ibn Abī al-Rajā' ibn Abī al-Fath al-Rārānī informed you by authorization.

It was also read to my father, while I listened, in Harrān in 666 AH: Yūsuf ibn Khalīl informed you: al-Rārānī informed us: Abū Alī al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Haddād informed us: the hadith master Abū Nu'aym Ahmad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq informed us: Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Khallād informed us: al-Hārith ibn Abī Usāma narrated to us: Abd Allāh ibn Bakr narrated to us: Humayd narrated to us, from Anas, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw a rope stretched between two pillars of the mosque. He asked, ‘What is this rope?’

“They replied, ‘O Messenger of Allah, so-and-so prays as long as she remains alert; when drowsiness overcomes her, she holds on to it.’

“He said, ‘Let her pray as long as she remains alert; when drowsiness overcomes her, let her sleep.’”

He was born in Rabī' al-Awwal, 609 AH, and died on the day of Āshūrā', 678 AH.

The fifteenth hadith:

The upright hadith transmitter Amīn al-Dīn Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr ibn Qāsim ibn Ghunayma al-Irbilī informed us, as did Abū Bakr ibn Umar ibn Yūnus al-Mizzī al-Hanafī