The venerable Shaykh Abu al-Qasim Mansur bin Abd al-Mun'im bin Abdullah al-Furawi (may Allah have mercy on him) informed us, by reading to him in Naysabur (may Allah protect it), and he granted me licence (ijazah) for everything he had heard and been licensed to narrate. He said: Abu al-Ma'ali Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Farisi (may Allah have mercy on him) informed us, and he granted me licence for everything he had heard, and he said: al-Hafiz Abu Bakr Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Ali al-Bayhaqi (may Allah have mercy on him) informed us. And more than one of our shaykhs informed us from Abu al-Qasim Ahmad bin Tahir, who said: Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi informed us, saying:
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الحج / 8800