He was born in 595 AH and died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, 673 AH.

Hadith 17:

The shaykh, imam, scholar, eminent authority, ascetic, and chief judge Shams al-Dīn Abū Muhammad Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Umar Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī al-Hanbalī informed us, as it was read to him while I listened in Sha‘bān, 667 AH, at Qāsiyūn, together with Ibn Shaybān, Ibn al-Asqalānī, and Ibn al-Hamawī. They said:

Abū Hafs Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Tabarzadh informed us: Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wāhid ibn al-Husayn informed us: Abū Tālib Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ghaylān al-Bazzāz informed us: Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shāfi‘ī informed us: Muhammad ibn Salamah al-Wāsitī narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us: Sulaymān al-Taymī narrated to us, from Abū Uthmān al-Nahdī, from Abū Mūsā al-Ash‘arī—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:

“We were with the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and the people were climbing a steep ascent or a mountain pass. Whenever a man climbed, he would say, ‘There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, and Allah is the Greatest’—the narrator said: I think he said, ‘at the top of his voice’—while the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—was riding his mule, guiding it along the mountain. The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said, ‘O Abū Mūsā,