[In the name of God, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful]

And from Him we seek help.

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Muḥammad b. al-Sayyidī informed us, as it was read to him while we were listening, in Rajab of the year 646, at our home in al-Zafariyya. It was said to him: Abū al-Fatḥ Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. Wāhib al-Barādānī informed you, as it was read to him while we were listening, in Ramaḍān of the year 576, as it was read to him while we were listening on Friday, the beginning of Dhū al-Ḥijja of the year 515. He said: Abū al-Ḥasan Jābir b. Yāsīn b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūyah informed us. He said: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. ʿUthmān b. Bakrān b. Jābir al-ʿAṭṭār informed us. He said: Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Salmān b. al-Ḥasan b. Isrāʾīl, the Ḥanbalī jurist al-Najjād, informed us.