All the other narrators in the chain of transmission are trustworthy. As for Abu Ali ibn Ibrahim, Abu al-Shaykh’s teacher, Abu al-Shaykh included his biography in his book, naming him Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mushafi (1). He said (442/643): “A shaykh who narrated many hadiths from Iraqi and Isfahani authorities; trustworthy. He died in the year [334]” (2).

As for Muhammad ibn Amir, he was Muhammad ibn Amir ibn Ibrahim ibn Waqid, Abu Abd Allah. Ibn Abi Hatim said (4/1/44): “I heard from him in Isfahan, and he was reliable.” Al-Dhahabi described him in al-Siyar (12/594) as “the eminent imam and scholar … He died in 267.”

His father, Amir ibn Ibrahim, was trustworthy and among the narrators cited by al-Nasa’i. The same applies to al-Nuʿman, namely al-Nuʿman ibn Abd al-Salam al-Isfahani.

As for Hatim ibn Yunus—who mentioned that Abu Bakr, al-Nuʿman’s teacher, was from Basra—Abu al-Shaykh included his biography in his book (237/270), saying: “He was from Jurjan, came to Isfahan, was one of the leading hadith scholars, and regularly engaged in hadith discussion.” Abu Nuʿaym said the same (1/297), and similar wording appears in Tarikh Jurjan (203/297).

Al-Haythami cited the hadith in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (10/181) in the wording of the chapter heading, omitting its final clause, and said: