you are not calling upon one who is deaf or absent.’ Then he said, ‘O Abd Allāh ibn Qays—or O Abū Mūsā—shall I direct you to a phrase from the treasures of Paradise?’ I said, ‘Yes, O Messenger of Allah.’ He said, ‘Say: There is no power and no strength except through Allah.’”
He was born in 597 AH and died in 682 AH.
Hadith 18:
The upright hadith transmitter of distinguished lineage, Majd al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Uthmān ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Asākir al-Dimashqī, informed us, as it was read to him while I listened in Sha‘bān, 667 AH:
The hadith master Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Alī ibn al-Hasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Asākir informed us, as it was read to him: Abū al-Durr Yāqūt ibn Abd Allāh al-Rūmī, the merchant and client of Ibn al-Bukhārī, informed us, as it was read to him.
Zaynab bint Makkī and Ismā‘īl ibn al-Asqalānī also informed us, saying:
Ibn Tabarzadh informed us: Judge Abū Bakr al-Ansārī, Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Ashqar al-Dallāl, Abū Ghālib Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Quraysh, and Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn Dahrūj informed us.
They all said:
Abū Muhammad Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn