and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Qāḍī, and others.
Some material was slipped into the register of his auditions without his realizing it.
Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī ⦗1⦘ said: “When Tughril Beg’s ⦗2⦘ army came to the city, one of the soldiers met Ibn al-ʿUshārī and asked, ‘Shaykh, what are you carrying?’ He answered, ‘I have nothing.’ Then he remembered that he had some travel money in his pocket, so he called the man back, took out what he possessed, and said, ‘This is what I have.’ The man was struck with awe, venerated him, and did not take the money.
Ibn al-Ṭuyūrī ⦗3⦘ also said: “A Bedouin told me, ‘Whenever drought befalls us, we seek rain through Ibn al-ʿUshārī, and rain is sent to us.’
It was further reported that a man read to al-ʿUshārī the book al-Ruʾyā by al-Dāraqutnī. When he reached the report of Umm al-Tufayl, he said, ‘and he mentioned the hadith’ ⦗4⦘, whereupon al-ʿUshārī said to the reader:
(1) See Tabaqat al-Hanabila, vol. 2, p. 192.
(2) This is the Seljuk sultan Rukn al-Dawla Muhammad b. Mikaʾil; his biography will appear under no. 52 in the present volume.
(3) See Tabaqat al-Hanabila, vol. 2, p. 192.
(4) Al-Khatib relates the report in his Tarikh, 13/311, with the isnad: Naʿim b. Hammad – related to us Ibn Wahb – ʿAmr b. al-Harith – Saʿid b. Abi Hilal – Marwan b. ʿUthman – ʿImara b. ʿAmir – Umm al-Tufayl, the wife of Abi…, who heard the Prophet say that he saw his Lord in a dream “in the most beautiful form, as a dignified youth; His feet were in greenery, He wore golden sandals and over His face was a cover of gold.” Ibn al-Jawzi quotes it in al-Mawduʿat and judges it fabricated. Some declared Naʿim trustworthy, yet Ibn ʿAdi said he forged hadith; he branded him so because of this very narration. Marwan is a liar, ʿImara is unknown, and Ahmad b. Hanbal, when asked about the report, replied: “It is munkar (denounced).”
Al-Dhahabi notes in al-Mizan, 4/92, that Marwan b. ʿUthman b. Abi Saʿid b. al-Muʿalla al-Zurqi was considered weak by Abu Hatim. Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Haddad relates from al-Nasaʾi: “And who is Marwan b. ʿUthman that he should speak on behalf of God?!”—a remark occasioned by this very hadith of Umm al-Tufayl.
Al-Dhahabi also lists the narration in al-Mizan, 4/229, under the entry of Naʿim b. Hammad among the reports rejected from him.
Ibn Hajar states in al-Isaba, 4/470, in the biography of Umm al-Tufayl—after citing it from al-Darqutni through Marwan b. ʿUthman—that “Marwan is abandoned,” and Ibn Maʿin said: “And who is Marwan that he should be believed?” =