Our shaykh, the hadith scholar (al-musnid) Kamal al-Din Abū Naṣr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Khiḍr ibn Shibl ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥārithī informed us; the report was read aloud to him while I listened on Friday, the sixth of Shaʿbān in the year —, at the Great Mosque of Damascus.
He said: The ḥāfiẓ Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAsākir informed us; it was read to him in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year —.
He said: Abū al-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʿAlī al-Qudsī al-Ṣāʾigh and Abū al-Qāsim Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn Muqatil al-Sūsī informed us; the text was read to them.
They said: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Zuhayr al-Malikī informed us.
He said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUbayd Allah al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us.
He said: Khaithamah narrated to us.
He said: al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd narrated to us.
He said: ʿUqbah ibn ʿAlqamah narrated to us.
He said: Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us, from ʿAṭiyyah ibn Qays, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, who said:
The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“I saw the pillar of the Book taken from beneath my pillow. I looked, and it was a light that was carried off to Syria! Beware: when trials erupt, faith will be in Syria.”