The jurist, eminent imam and scholar Zayn al-Din Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Abī Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad ibn Naṣr, known as Ibn al-Sadīd al-Anṣārī al-Ḥanafī, informed us; the text was read to him in Rajab of the year 675 AH. Abū al-Yaman Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd al-Kindī likewise informed us—his copy was read to him—and Zaynab bint Makkī also informed us. She said:
Abū Ḥafṣ ibn Tabarzad informed us. They both said: The judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿĪsā al-Bāqillānī informed us; Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān ibn Mālik al-Qaṭīʿī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Qurashī narrated to us; ʿAwn ibn ʿUmārah narrated to us; Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl narrated to us, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“The fasting person remains free to choose (whether to continue or break his fast) until the middle of the day.”