ibn Hārūn, who said: Muhammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Habīb narrated to us: Sa‘īd ibn Rāshid narrated to us, from ‘Atā’, from Ibn ‘Umar, who reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“Only the one who gave the call to prayer should give the call to commence it.”
He was born in 606 AH and died in Dhū al-Qa‘dah 689 AH.
Hadith Thirty:
The well-born hadith transmitter Najm al-Dīn Abū al-‘Izz Yūsuf ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Alī al-Mujāwir al-Shaybānī informed us, as it was read to him while I listened in Muharram 680 AH, as did al-Muslim ibn ‘Allān. They both said:
Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayd al-Kindī informed us, as it was read to him: Abū Mansūr ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn Zurayq al-Qazzāz al-Shaybānī informed us: the hadith master Abū Bakr Ahmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Thābit al-Khatīb informed us: Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mu’addib informed us: ‘Alī ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Muthannā al-‘Anbarī narrated to me in Astarābādh: Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Ja‘far ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī al-Baghdādī narrated to us in Arrajān: al-Hasan ibn ‘Arafah narrated to us.
Al-Khatīb said: Abū ‘Umar ibn Mahdī and a group of others also informed us. They said:
Ismā‘īl ibn Muhammad al-Saffār informed us: al-Hasan ibn ‘Arafah narrated to us: We were told by Ismā‘īl ibn