Abū Muḥammad al-Fabajāni (1) narrated to us; my grandfather ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Ādam ibn Abī Iyās narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Ḥayyān, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When the son of Adam recites the verse of prostration (2) and then prostrates, Satan withdraws, weeping, and says, ‘Alas for me! The son of Adam was commanded to prostrate, so he prostrated and Paradise is his; I too was commanded to prostrate, but I disobeyed, and the Fire is mine.’” (3)
236 – Ibn al-Sāʿātī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Khurasānī *
The very eye of the poets, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Rustum, Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-Khurasānī—later of Damascus—known as Ibn al-Sāʿātī. His father built clocks, whereas Bahāʾ al-Dīn entered military service, praised kings, settled in Egypt, and produced exquisite verse. He was the brother of the unrivalled physician Fakhr al-Dīn Raḍwān Ibn al-Sāʿātī. The Dīwān of Bahāʾ fills two volumes (4), from which he prepared a smaller selection (5),
(1) The nisba designates Fabajan, a village in the region of Isfahan.
(2) Cited in Sahih Muslim, in the chapter al-Sajda—i.e., the verse that requires a prostration.
(3) A sound hadith reported by Imam Muslim in the Book of Faith, chapter “Applying the term disbelief to one who abandons the prayer” (no. 81), through the chain: Zuhayr b. Harb → Wakiʿ → al-Aʿmash → Abu Salih → Abu Hurayra. Muslim also transmits it from Abu Bakr b. Abi Shayba and Abu Kurayb, via Abu Muʿawiya, from al-Aʿmash with the same isnad; that version reads: “so I refused and was cast into the Fire,” and Abu Kurayb’s wording has “ya wayli” (woe to me) instead of “ya waylahu.” Imam Ahmad records it in his Musnad 2/443, through Wakiʿ, Yaʿla, and Muhammad, from ʿUbayd, from al-Aʿmash.
(*) Further biographical references: Takmilat al-Mundhiri 2, entry 1033; Wafayat al-Aʿyan 3/395-396; Tarikh al-Islam 18/1/171; al-ʿIbar 5/11; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat 8, fols. 158-165; Tarikh Ibn al-Furat 9, fols. 29-30; ʿUyoun al-Anbaʾ 2/184; Shadharat al-Dhahab 5/13-14; Rawdat al-Jannat, p. 89.
(4) The text was critically edited by the Lebanese scholar Anis al-Maqdisi.
(5) Ibn Khallikan records that he titled the work Maqattaʿat al-Nil.