The jurist, Sayf al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā son of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān son of Najm son of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥanbalī, informed us. He read the text aloud to him while I listened, on Friday, the 10th of Shawwāl in the year 669 AH. The same transmission was conveyed by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad son of ʿAbd al-Munʿim son of al-Qawwās; al-Muʾammal son of Muḥammad al-Bālīsī; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad son of Abī Bakr al-ʿĀmirī in his History; Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad son of Shaybān; Abū Bakr son of Muḥammad al-Harawī; Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā son of Abī Manṣūr son of al-Ṣayrafī; Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān son of Sulaymān al-Baghdādī; al-Shams son of al-Zayn; al-Kamāl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī; Zaynab daughter of Makkī; and Sitt al-ʿArab.
The first of these, together with Ibn Shaybān and Zaynab, said: Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar son of Muḥammad son of Tabarzad informed us.
The others, along with Ibn Shaybān, said: Zayd son of al-Ḥasan al-Kindī informed us. Ibn al-Ṣayrafī added: “And Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz son of Maʿālī son of Ghunaymah son of Munīnā—he read it to him.”
They continued: The judge Abū Bakr Muḥammad son of ʿAbd al-Bāqī son of Muḥammad son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī informed us; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm son of ʿUmar son of Aḥmad al-Barmakī informed us; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh son of Ibrāhīm son of Ayyūb son of Māsī informed us; Abū Muslim Ibrāhīm son of ʿAbd Allāh son of Muslim al-Kajji narrated to us; Muḥammad son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī narrated to us; Ḥumayd narrated to me, from Anas,