And with this same chain Qutaybah narrated to us; Bakr ibn Muḍar narrated to us; from Ibn al-Hād; from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm; from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd; from al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib—may Allah be pleased with him—who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “When the servant prostrates, seven limbs prostrate with him: his face, his two hands, his two knees, and his two feet.”
It was recorded by Aḥmad, Muslim, al-Tirmidhī, and al-Nasāʾī through the narration of Qutaybah (1), and our transmission agrees with theirs while enjoying a higher chain.
68 – Ibn al-ʿArīf, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Ṣinhājī *
The Imām, the ascetic, the gnostic, Abū al-ʿAbbās Ibn al-ʿArīf al-Ṣinhājī, the Andalusian from Almería, a Qurʾān reciter celebrated for his works on the spiritual stations and subtle allusions.
He kept the company of Abū ʿAlī ibn Sukkara al-Ṣadafī; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Barjī (2); Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Lamaghānī; Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Shafīʿ the reciter; and Khalaf ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUraybī (3),
(1) Reported by Ahmad, Musnad 1/306 and 308; Muslim, Sahih no. 231; al-Tirmidhi, Sunan no. 272; and al-Nasaʾi, Sunan 2/208.
(*) Principal biographical sources: Ibn Bashkuwal, al-Silah 1/81; Ibn Saʿid, Bughyat al-multamis, 166; Ibn al-Abbar, al-Muʿjam, 15-19; al-Matrib, 90; al-Maghrib 2/211; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-aʿyan 1/168-170; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar 4/98-99; al-Safadi, al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat 8/133-135; Aʿmal al-aʿlam, 248; al-Nuwayri, al-Nujum al-zahirah 5/270; al-Tazi, Nayl al-ibtihaj, 58; al-Maqqari, Nafh al-tib 3/229-230; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharāt al-dhahab 4/112.
(2) The nisbah al-Burji is vocalised with an initial baʾ bearing fathah, followed by a quiescent raʾ, and then a jim. It refers to Burjah, a locality in the province of Almeria. The person in question is Abu l-Hasan ʿAli b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd Allah al-Judhami, who died after 506/1112. He is treated in Yaqut, Muʿjam al-buldan 1/374, and in Ibn Nuqtah’s Istidrak (entry “al-Burji/al-Burji”). The nisbah is corrupted in Ibn al-Abbar’s Muʿjam, p. 16, where it appears as “al-Burjani.”
(3) The original manuscript vocalises the name in the diminutive form. Later the author, citing Ibn Bashkuwal, will write it as “al-ʿArabi.” His biography is given in Ibn Bashkuwal’s al-Silah 1/175, where he is said to be known as Ibn al-ʿArabi.