Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Shaybān ibn Taghlib ibn Ḥaydarah al-Shaybānī informed us—the text being read to him while I listened—in the year 684 AH. He said: Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭabarzad al-Baghdādī informed us, the text being read to him; he said: Abū Ghālib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us, the text being read to him while we listened; he said: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Jawharī informed us, the text being read to him in Ramadan of the year 452 AH; he said: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥamdān ibn Mālik al-Qaṭīʿī informed us, the text being read to him while I was present and listening; he said: Abū ʿAlī Bishr ibn Mūsā ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Asadī narrated to us; he said: Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; he said: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Shaqīq ibn Salamah, who said:

ʿAbd Allāh (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

“When we prayed behind the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—we used to say, ‘Peace be upon Allah but not upon the servants of Allah; peace be upon Gabriel and Michael; peace be upon so-and-so and so-and-so.’ The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—turned toward us and said, ‘Allah is al-Salām (the Source of Peace). Therefore, when any one of you performs the prayer, let him say: al-taḥiyyātu lillāh wa-ṣ-ṣalawātu wa-ṭ-ṭayyibāt (all greetings, prayers, and pure words belong to Allah). Peace be upon you…”