Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Iṣbahānī

Related to us: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Aṣbahānī; he said: related to us: Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf ibn Ṣāliḥ; he said: related to us: my father; he said: related to us: al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Aṣbahānī; he said: related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa, from ʿAdī, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ—may God have mercy on them—from Abū Hurayra—may God be pleased with him—who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, forbade fasting continuously without breaking the fast between days, and fasting from speech.

Related to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣbahānī; he said: related to us: Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān; he said: related to us: my father; he said: related to us: al-Nuʿmān—he is Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; he said: related to us: Shuʿba, Abū Ḥanīfa and Sufyān al-Thawrī—may God have mercy on them—from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Qazaʿa, from Abū Saʿīd—may God be pleased with him: From the Prophet, may God bless him and his family and grant him peace, who said: “These two days are not to be fasted: the day of the festival of breaking the fast and the day of sacrifice.”

Related to us: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr al-Aṣbahānī; he said: related to us: Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn Yūsuf al-Aṣbahānī; he said: related to us: my father; he said: related to us: al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAbd al-Salām; he said: related to us: Abū Ḥanīfa, from ʿAlqama ibn Marthad, from Ibn Burayda, from his father, who said: They discussed ill omen in the presence of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. The Messenger of God, peace be upon him, said: “Ill omen is in three things: a woman, a house and a horse. A woman’s ill omen is to be ill-tempered and barren. A house’s ill omen is to be cramped with bad neighbours. A horse’s ill omen is to be headstrong and refuse to be ridden.”