Sayyiduna Urwah bin Abi J’ad al-Bariqi (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: “Goodness has been placed in the forelocks of horses until the Day of Resurrection.”
The shaykh, the imam, the scholar, the ascetic, the memorizer, Taqi al-Din Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Ghani ibn ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn ‘Ali ibn Surur al-Maqdisi—may Allah grant him success—informed us, he said: Abu al-Hasan Sa‘d Allah ibn Nasr ibn al-Dajjaji, and Abu al-Ma‘ali Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Ghani ibn Hanifah al-Bajisra’i in Baghdad, both said: Imam Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Muqri’, known as al-Khayyat, narrated to us, he said: Abu Tahir ‘Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Zayd ibn Zayd al-Mu’addib narrated to us, reading to him and I was listening in the year four hundred and twenty-seven, and he affirmed it, he said: Abu ‘Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Sawwaf narrated to us, reading to him and I was listening, he said: Bishr ibn Musa narrated to us, he said: The shaykh, the imam, the scholar, the ascetic, the memorizer, Taqi al-Din Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-Ghani ibn ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn ‘Ali ibn Surur al-Maqdisi—may Allah grant him success—informed us, he said: Abu al-Hasan Sa‘d Allah ibn Nasr ibn al-Dajjaji, and Abu al-Ma‘ali Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Ghani ibn Hanifah al-Bajisra’i in Baghdad, both said: Imam Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-Muqri’, known as al-Khayyat, narrated to us, he said: Abu Tahir ‘Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Zayd ibn Zayd al-Mu’addib narrated to us, reading to him and I was listening in the year four hundred and twenty-seven, and he affirmed it, he said: Abu ‘Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Sawwaf narrated to us, reading to him and I was listening, he said: Bishr ibn Musa narrated to us, he said: