In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

My Lord, make it easy by Your mercy.

The righteous, long-lived Sheikh, the traditionist Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Abī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Muqayyir al-Baghdādī al-Najjār al-Muʾaddib informed us, by reading to him while I was listening, on the twenty-fourth of the month of Ramaḍān in the year 633 at the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus; it was said to him: The Sheikh Abū al-Karam al-Mubārak ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Shahrazūrī informed you by authorization, saying: Abū Muḥammad Rizq Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥārith al-Tamīmī, May God be pleased with him, informed us in Shawwāl of the year 487, saying: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Dūst al-ʿAllāf informed us, by reading to him: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣafwān al-Bardhaʿī narrated to us: Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Dunyā narrated to us: