625 AH. Abū al-Nada Ḥassān ibn Tamīm al-Zayyāt then related to us—in the year 553 AH—saying: Abū al-Fath Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm, the jurist, informed us; Sulaym ibn Ayyūb informed us; the judge Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim al-Maḥāmilī informed us; Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaffār narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Rammādī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām informed us, saying: Maʿmar narrated to us from al-Zuhrī, who said that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah told me, from Ḥārithah ibn al-Nuʿmān, who said:
“I passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while Gabriel was sitting with him at the Maqāʿid. I greeted him with salām and went on my way. When I returned and the Prophet ﷺ had left, he said to me, ‘Did you see the one who was with me?’ I replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘That was Gabriel, and he returned your greeting.’ (1)
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān of Nablus related to us; Aḥmad ibn al-Khaḍir related to us; Ḥamzah ibn Aḥmad ibn Fāris related to us; Naṣr ibn Ibrāhīm the ascetic narrated to us; ʿAbdus ibn ʿUmar al-Tinnīsī informed us; Abū al-Fath al-Farghānī informed us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣūfī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan the reciter narrated to us, saying: I heard Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn say, ‘I heard Dhū al-Nūn say:
The scholars used to exhort one another with three maxims, and some of them would write them to each other:
• Whoever beautifies his inner life, Allah will beautify his outward life.
• Whoever sets right what lies between him and Allah, Allah will set right what lies between him and other people.
• Whoever puts his Hereafter in good order, Allah will put his worldly affairs in good order.’