Riyāḥ al-Baṣrī...

Riyāḥ al-Baṣrī, from Abū Ja`far al-`Amrī who said: When the Master, peace be on him, was born, (Imam) Abū Muḥammad, peace be on him, said, “Send someone to Abū `Amr.” Someone was sent to him and when he came, [the Imam] said to him, “Buy ten thousand pounds (raṭl[^6]) of bread and ten thousand pounds of meat and distribute it—I think he said among the Banī-Hāshim—and slaughter such and such number of sheep as his `aqīqa[^7].” Kamāl al-dīn[^8]: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b.

`Iṣām, may Allah be satisfied with him, from Muḥammad b. Ya`qūb al-Kulainī, from `Alī b. Muḥammad who said: “The Master was born on Sha`bān 15, 255 AH.” Al-Ghayba by Faḍl b. Shādhān[^9]: Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. `Abd-Allah al-Ash`arī, from (Imam) Abū Muḥammad b. `Alī al-`Askarī, peace be on him, who said: All praise is for the One who did not take me from this world until He…