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- Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣawli related to us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-Ummah, who said: “One day we gathered while travelling through a valley—everyone with us was either a jurist or a ḥadīth scholar—and this was at the very start of al-Muʿtamad’s caliphate. They mentioned Sufyān al-Thawrī’s statement: ‘The caliphs are five: the four Rightly Guided and ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.’ We all responded, ‘The sixth is al-Muhtadī; on that point we had no disagreement.’”
٢٦٦٥ - أنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، أنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الصَّوْلِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْأُمَّةِ، يَقُولُ: اجْتَمَعْنَا يَوْمًا نَسِيرُ مِنْ وَادٍ، وَمَا مَعَنَا إِلَّا فَقِيهٌ أَوْ مُحَدِّثٌ، وَذَاكَ فِي أَوَّلِ خِلَافَةِ الْمُعْتَمِدِ، فَذَكَرُوا قَوْلَ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيَّ: الْخُلَفَاءُ خَمْسَةٌ: الْأَرْبَعَةُ الرَّاشِدُونَ، وَعُمَرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ، فَقُلْنَا كُلُّنَا: السَّادِسُ الْمُهْتَدِي، مَا اخْتَلَفْنَا فِي ذَلِكَ