and Abū Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Sulaymān al-Āmirī, as it was read to them while I listened in 677 AH.
The first said:
Abū al-Hasan al-Mu’ayyad informed us, from Muhammad ibn al-Fadl ibn Ahmad al-Furāwī.
The other two said:
Abū al-Qāsim Abd al-Samad ibn al-Harastānī informed us, as it was read to him: al-Furāwī informed us by authorization: Abū al-Husayn Abd al-Ghāfir ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī informed us: Abū Ahmad Muhammad ibn Īsā ibn Amrawayh al-Julūdī informed us: Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad ibn Sufyān informed us: Muslim ibn al-Hajjāj al-Qushayrī narrated to us: Khalaf ibn Hishām, Abū al-Rabī‘ al-Zahrānī, and Qutayba ibn Sa‘īd narrated to us, all from Hammād.
Khalaf said:
Hammād ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ziyād: Abū Hurayra narrated to us, saying: Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace, may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“Does the one who raises his head before the imam not fear that Allah may turn his head into a donkey’s head?”
Al-Irbilī was born in Irbil in 595 AH or earlier and died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 680 AH. Al-Mizzī was born in 593 AH and died in Sha‘bān, 680 AH.