Muna ambaton ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim al-Karūkhī, wanda ya ambaci ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, wanda ya ambaci Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ, wanda ya ambaci Abū Bakr ibn Abī l-Faḍl al-Muʿaddal,2 wanda ya koya daga Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣarrām; kuma3 muna ambaton ʿAbd al-Malik, wanda ya ambaci ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, wanda ya ambaci Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mihrawī,4 wanda ya koya daga Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, notary-witness na Būshanj, wanda ya koya daga Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn al-ʿAbbās, wanda [tare da al-Ṣarrām] ya ambaci Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ghasīlī yana cewa: 1.1

We cite ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī l-Qāsim al-Karūkhī, who cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, who cites Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥāfiẓ, who cites Abū Bakr ibn Abī l- Faḍl al-Muʿaddal,2 who learned it from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣarrām; and3 we cite ʿAbd al-Malik, who cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, who cites Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mihrawī,4 who learned it from Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb, the notary-witness of Būshanj, who learned it from Muḥammad ibn al- Ṭayyib ibn al-ʿAbbās, who [along with al-Ṣarrām] cites Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq al-Ghasīlī as saying: 1.1

[Al-Ghasīlī:] Na ji ɗan Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ, yana cewa shi—wato mahaifinsa—an haife shi a watan Rabīʿ I na shekara 164 [Nuwamba–Disamba 780], bayan ya bar Marv yana cikin cikin mahaifiyarsa.