2996 — “When he began the prayer, he would say: ‘Glory and praise be to You, O Allah. Blessed is Your Name, exalted is Your majesty, and there is no deity besides You.’”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Duʿāʾ (2/1034/506): Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā, known as Zaḥmawayh, narrated to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sīnānī narrated to us, from Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl, from Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him), who related it. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are well-known and trustworthy, apart from Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Wāsiṭī. He is Ibn Manawayh—with a nūn—the hadith master, distinguished teacher, and scholar, as stated in al-Dhahabī’s Siyar (14/242). He was one of al-Ṭabarānī’s well-known teachers, from whom he narrated more than one hundred hadiths in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (2/192/2–198/2). The numbers of these hadiths in my photographed copy, which I numbered myself, are 7945–8047. Moreover, he was not alone in narrating it, as will follow.

His teacher was Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā; Zaḥmawayh was his nickname, as stated by al-Ḥāfiẓ in al-Tabṣīr (2/595). Lisān al-Mīzān mentions that he was trustworthy and that Abū Zurʿah and Abū Yaʿlā narrated from him. Ibn Ḥibbān also included his narrations in his Ṣaḥīḥ. I say: What he omitted was to mention that Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt (8/253) and said: “He was among the meticulous transmitters.” He narrated extensively from him in his Ṣaḥīḥ; see the numbers of his hadiths in the Foundation’s Index (18/132).

Likewise, Baḥshal narrated extensively from him in Tārīkh Wāsiṭ. He gave him a brief biographical entry, identified him by the kunyah Abū Muḥammad, and said (p. 197): “His head and beard were white.” And he said of him: