لا يصلح هذه الأمة إلا ما أصلح أولها
‘Nothing will rectify the last generations of this Ummah except that which rectified the first generations.'
Name: Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Al-Salām Ibn Ḥabīb Ibn Ḥasan Ibn Ḥilāl Ibn Bakkār Ibn Rabīʿah Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tanūkhī, originally al-Himsī known as Saḥnūn. His Death: The Month of Rajab, 240 Hijrī (854 CE). His teachers and those he heard from: Sufyān Ibn ʿUyaynah, al-Walīd Ibn Muslim, ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Ibn al-Qāsim, ʿAbd Allāh…
His Name and Lineage: ʿUthmān Ibn Saʿīd Ibn ʿUthmān Ibn Saʿīd Ibn ʿUmar, Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī, al-Umawī, their servant, al-Qurṭubī, who was known in his time as “Ibn al-Sayrafī”. His Death: The middle of Shawwāl, 444H His Teachers and those he heard from: He heard from Abū Muslim Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad al-Kātib,…