‘Abd al-Samad ibn Muhammad ibn Abī al-Fadl ibn al-Harastānī: Abū Muhammad Tāhir ibn Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Ahmad al-Isfarāyīnī informed us: Abū al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Makkī ibn ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Azdī al-Misrī informed us: Abū al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-‘Abbās al-Akhmīmī narrated to us, from material selected by ‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn Sa‘īd: Abū Ja‘far Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Salāmah narrated to us: Yūnus ibn ‘Abd al-A‘lā narrated to us: ‘Abd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: Talhah ibn Abī Sa‘īd narrated to me that Sa‘īd al-Maqburī narrated to him from Abū Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“Whoever keeps a horse for the cause of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, out of faith in Allah and belief in His promise, its food and drink, its dung and urine, will count as good deeds in his balance on the Day of Resurrection.”
He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā 688 AH at the age of eighty-two. Al-Fāqūsī died in Sha‘bān 682 AH at the age of seventy-five.
Hadith Thirty-Four:
The shaykh and imam, Muhyī al-Dīn Abū Hafs ‘Umar ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn Abī ‘Asrūn al-Tamīmī, informed us, as I read to him and listened, in 682 AH