1 – Shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā, the Qur’an-reciter, informed us during a reading to him on Wednesday, the fourth of Shaʿbān, in the year 451 AH. He said: Shaykh Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bishrān al-Muʿaddal informed us during a reading to him in 407 AH. It was said to him, “Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣafwān al-Bardhaʿī read it to you,” and he acknowledged this in Muḥarram of the year 340 AH.
He said: Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Dunyā informed us; he said: ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd narrated to me; he said: Shuʿbah informed us; he said: ʿAmr ibn Murrah informed me; he said: I heard Abū al-Bakhtarī say, “Someone who had heard the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—told me that he said:
“People will not be doomed until they have exhausted every excuse for themselves.”