I heard from him a portion [of the book] transmitted on the authority of Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, by virtue of her license (ijāzah) from Ibn Saʿd, through this chain of his.

4. As for the transmission of Ibn al-ʿAbd, he—may God have mercy on him—said:

I was informed of the transmission of Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd, known as Ibn al-ʿAbd, by: the aforementioned shaykh, from Abū al-Nūn Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qawī, from Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Maḥmūd al-Ṣābūnī and others, [who said:] we were informed by the ḥāfiẓ Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī orally, [who said:] we were informed by Abū ʿĀmir Ghālib ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ghālib al-Isṭarābādhī, [who said:] we were informed by Abū Ḥājib Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isṭarābādhī, [who said:] ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Asadī informed us, from him.

5. As for the transmission of Abū ʿĪsā al-Ramlī, he—may God have mercy on him—said:

I was informed of the transmission of Abū ʿĪsā Isḥāq ibn Mūsā ibn Saʿīd al-Ramlī, the copyist ( warrāq) of Abū Dāwūd, by: Abū Ḥayyān ibn Abī Ḥayyān, from his grandfather Abū Ḥayyān, from more than one person, from Ibn Bashkuwāl, from Abū Muḥammad ibn ʿAttāb, from Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, from Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān, from Aḥmad ibn Khalīl ibn Duḥaym (thus he said, but the correct form is Aḥmad ibn Duḥaym ibn Khalīl, as found in the sources of his biography), from him.

Our shaykh, the ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿIrāqī—may God preserve him—recited to me, recording precisely what Ibn Ṭabarzad heard from his shaykh concerning this book:

The compilation of Ibn Ṭabarzad has been assembled — for the collection of Abū Dāwūd, so memorize it in verse:

From Mufliḥ: the second, and its follower the seventh — and the ninth, and the four following in succession

And the fifteenth, then a follower, and the third — and the twentieth, with the thirty-first, precisely counted.