Hibat Allāh ibn Muhammad al-Hārithī, Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ibn Abī ‘Umar, and Ahmad ibn Shaybān informed us of this hadith. They said:
Ibn Mulā‘ib informed us: al-Urmawī informed us: Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Busrī informed us: Abū Ahmad al-Faradī informed us: Abū Bakr al-Mutayrī narrated to us: Bishr ibn Matar informed us: Sufyān narrated to us, and related the same hadith.
He was born in 609 AH and died in Cairo in Dhū al-Hijjah 684 AH.
Hadith Twenty-Nine:
Imam Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sa‘d al-Maqdisī informed us in 681 AH, as did Abū al-‘Abbās ibn Shaybān and Ismā‘īl ibn al-‘Asqalānī. The first two said:
Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayd al-Kindī informed us.
The latter two said: Abū Hafs ibn Tabarzadh informed us.
They both said:
Judge Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Bāqī ibn Muhammad al-Ansārī informed us: Abū al-Qāsim ‘Umar ibn al-Husayn ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhammad al-Khaffāf informed us, as it was read to him while I listened in 447 AH: Abū al-Fadl ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad al-Zuhrī informed us, as it was read to him in 373 AH, saying: We were told by Muhammad