al-Qāsim, stating that ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad related to them, in 517 AH (1), in person:

“Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us at the end of 429 AH, saying: Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣawwāf informed us; Isḥāq al-Ḥarbī narrated to us; ʿAffān related to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Abū Jaʿfar al-Khaṭmī, from Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb, who said:

‘ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd (2) was invited to a meal. When he arrived and saw that the house had been draped with decorated cloth, he sat outside, wept, and said:

“The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said: ‘The world has come upon you three times,’ meaning: it has advanced toward you.”

He then added: “Will you be better off now, or when a dish is set before you in the morning and another in the evening; when one of you goes out in one suit and returns in another; and when you curtain your houses just as the Kaʿbah is curtained?”

ʿAbd Allāh concluded, “Should I not weep, when I have seen you curtaining your houses exactly as the Kaʿbah is curtained!”’”

Al-Nasāʾī recorded this in al-Yawm wa’l-Laylah through the chain of Hilāl ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, from ʿAffān.

230 – Ibn al-Munajjā, Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā ibn Barakāt al-Tanūkhī
The shaykh, the imam, the erudite scholar, shaykh of the Ḥanbalīs, Wajīh al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿālī Asʿad ibn al-Munajjā ibn Abī al-Munajjā Barakāt ibn al-Muʾammal al-Tanūkhī, originally from Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān and later of Damascus, a Ḥanbalī.

He was born in 519 AH.

He travelled to Baghdad after studying jurisprudence (3) under the distinguished scholar of Islam, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn