124 – The compiler records it from Ibn Abī Hātim, who said: “Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥasan narrated to us: I heard Aḥmad ibn Yūnus.” I remark: this chain of transmission is sound.

13 – Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, the foremost of the ʿAlawīs in his day and one of the leading imams of the Ḥijāz; he did not live long enough to meet any of the Companions. He died in 148 AH.

144 – Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār reported: “Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad was asked about the Quran. He replied, ‘It is neither Creator nor created; it is the Speech of Allah.’”

125 – The compiler cites it through Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī: “Suwayd ibn Saʿīd narrated to us from Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār … .” Al-Bayhaqī also included it in al-Asmāʾ (p. 246) by way of Abū Zurʿah.
I comment: the chain meets Muslim’s criteria, save for Suwayd ibn Saʿīd—al-Ḥadathānī—whose reliability is debated. He is, however, supported by Maʿbad ibn Rāshid Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, who transmits the same report from Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār al-Dahnī.

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Afʿāl (p. 72); Abū Dāwūd in al-Masāʾil (265); Ibn Aḥmad in al-Sunnah (p. 23); al-Dārimī in al-Radd ʿalā al-Marīsī (p. 116); Ibn Abī Hātim as quoted in Minhāj al-Sunnah (2/187–188); and al-Bayhaqī, who declared it authentic.

I add: Aḥmad said of this Maʿbad, “There is nothing objectionable in him.” Abū Dāwūd, concerning this very report, quoted al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Bazzār: “Maʿbad Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us—he is trustworthy.” Hence the report is firmly established from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad; indeed, Ibn Taymiyyah stated in Minhāj al-Sunnah (2/181) that it is “widely transmitted from him.”

It was also transmitted by Yūnus ibn Bukayr, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, who said it—and he mentioned it. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad likewise recorded it, and al-Bayhaqī took it from him in al-Asmāʾ (p. 246) through ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Washshāʾ from Yūnus. ʿAbd Allāh said:
“Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn—Mawlā al-Naḍr, Abū ʿAbd Allāh—told me: ‘I saw ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās; he was our neighbor and counted among the upright, trustworthy narrators.’”

I note: Ibn Abī Hātim lists him (2/2/116) without any criticism or endorsement. Yūnus ibn Bukayr is described in al-Taqrīb as truthful but prone to error.

14 – Salām, the renowned Qur’an-reciter of Basra; d. 171 AH.

145 – ʿAffān ibn Muslim related: “I was sitting with Salām Abū al-Munḏir, the reciter of the people of—”