at Your service. I added, “O caller on behalf of Allah.” He replied, “No; instead say, ‘At Your service, my Lord—Allah. What pain are you feeling?’ ”
I answered, “My God and Master, the fever has drained me, as You already know.”
He said, “I have ordered it to leave you.”
I asked, “My God, and the cold as well?”
He said, “I have likewise commanded the cold to depart from you, so you will feel neither the sting of cold nor the heat.”
By Allah, I no longer sense the heat or the cold that you experience. ⦗1⦘
Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfani said: Al-Khilʿi died in Egypt on the twenty-sixth of Dhu al-Hijja, 492 AH. ⦗2⦘
Abu al-Husayn Yahya ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Judhami at the frontier narrated to us; Muhammad ibn ʿImad related to us in the year 620 AH; ʿAbd Allah ibn Rifāʿa told us; ʿAli ibn al-Hasan al-Shafiʿi told us; Abu Muhammad ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Nahhas dictated to us; Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Dānāj al-Istakhri dictated to us in the year 335 AH; Ishaq al-Dabari ⦗3⦘ reported, saying:
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(1) al-Subki, Tabaqat, vol. 5, pp. 254-255; ʿUyun al-Tawarikh, vol. 13, fol. 88.
(2) al-Subki, Tabaqat, vol. 5, p. 255; al-Isnawi, Tabaqat, vol. 1, p. 479; al-Suyuti, Husn al-Muhadara, vol. 1, p. 404.
(3) The nisba “al-Dabari” derives from al-Dabar, a village near Sanaʿa in Yemen, and designates Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAbbad al-Dabari, the transmitter of ʿAbd al-Razzaq’s works. Ibn ʿAdi observed that he was still a child when he heard ʿAbd al-Razzaq. Al-Dhahabi notes in al-Mizan, 1/181-182: “He was not a hadith specialist; his father merely took him to the study circles and cared for him. He heard ʿAbd al-Razzaq’s compilations when he was about seven, yet he later narrated some isolated reports from him. Scholars therefore hesitated: were these anomalies his own additions, or are they among the singular narrations of ʿAbd al-Razzaq himself?” Even so, Abu ʿAwanah cites al-Dabari in his Sahih, al-Tabarani transmits many reports from him, and, in the version preserved by al-Hakim, al-Darqutni declares: “He is trustworthy; I have never seen anyone dispute that. The only comment is that he was not a professional scholar.” Asked whether his material may figure in a Sahih, he replied, “By Allah, yes.” Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khayr’s Faharis, p. 131, records a treatise entitled “Correction of the Words That Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Dabari Misread in the Musannaf of ʿAbd al-Razzaq.”