134 – The author said: “Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā related to us; Abū Muḥammad al-Marwazī also related to us.”

I say: This chain is sound; all of its narrators are trustworthy. Abū Muḥammad al-Marwazī’s personal name is ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Razmah, Ghazwān al-Yashkurī, the client of that clan. Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā is Abū Bakr al-Qasṭalānī, and he is “truthful” (ṣadūq), as Ibn Abī Ḥātim declared (4/1/60).

21 – Hushaym ibn Bashīr, the leading scholar of Baghdad (d. 183 AH).

154 – Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Samīnah narrated to us: A man came to Hushaym and said, “We have an imam who says that the Quran is created.” Hushaym replied, “Recite to him the end of Sūrat al-Ḥashr. If he insists that it is created and you have the power to strike off his head, then strike off his head.” Aḥmad ibn Yūnus likewise said: “I heard Ibn al-Mubārak declare: Whoever says that the words, ‘Indeed, I am Allah; there is no deity except Me, so worship Me’ (Q 20:14), are created is a disbeliever.”

135 – I say: Its chain is good.

22 – Nūḥ al-Jāmiʿ, the jurist of Khurāsān (d. 173 AH).

155 – The ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī said: I heard my father say: I heard Abū ʿIṣmah Nūḥ ibn Abī Maryam—may Allah have mercy on him. A man questioned him, “Is Allah in heaven?” He responded by relating the Prophet’s ﷺ ḥadīth when he asked the slave-girl, “Where is Allah?” She said, “In heaven,” whereupon he said, “Set her free, for she is a believer.” Nūḥ then commented, “The Prophet ﷺ called her a believer because she knew that Allah is in heaven.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal also recorded this report from his father in the book al-Sunnah.

136 – I say: This Nūḥ has been accused of unreliability, as noted earlier (p. 134). The author cites him only for his learning and juristic insight—especially since he was a Ḥanafī—not for the strength of his ḥadīth transmission. Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī is one of the teachers of the two Ṣaḥīḥs; he is not the same as ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī, author of Refutation of al-Marīsī and Refutation of the Jahmiyyah, nor ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the compiler of the Sunan popularly called Musnad al-Dārimī.

As for his father, Saʿīd ibn Ṣakhr al-Dārimī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (2/1/34) on the authority of his own father: