The shaykh, jurist, and eminent scholar Jamal al-Din Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sulaymān ibn Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān al-Baghdādī informed us; it was read to him while I listened in the year 668 AH.
Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd al-Kindī likewise informed us; it was read to him.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Muqrī informed us; in turn he related from Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Naqqūr, who related from Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Mukhalliṣ in the year 390 AH.
Yaḥyā narrated to us; Yūnus narrated to us; Abū al-Aḥwaṣ narrated to us, from Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ, from ʿUmayr, from Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:
“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade two kinds of transactions and two kinds of dress: that a man should wear a single garment, wrap it around himself, throw one edge of it over his shoulder, and that he sit in iḥtibāʾ (binding his knees with a single cloth) while wearing only that one garment,