the Sultan—meaning al-Kāmil. I appeared before him, and he would ask me about various questions of hadith and about historical events. He instructed me to remain at the Citadel, so I went there every day.
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad informed us; Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the ḥāfiẓ, informed us; Ḥabīb ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ayyūb informed us; Abū Naṣr al-Tammār informed us; Ḥammād informed us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, from ʿAṭāʾ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever conceals knowledge that he has learned, Allah—exalted be He—will bridle him with a bridle of fire.” (1)
We also transmitted it with an elevated chain from Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad.
Ibn al-Najjār records that his father died in the year 586 AH at the age of forty-eight. He was head of the carpenters in the Caliphal Palace and belonged to the common folk.
99 – Abū al-Rabīʿ ibn Sālim, Sulaymān ibn Mūsā ibn Sālim al-Ḥimyarī*
The imām, erudite scholar, ḥāfiẓ, master teacher, eloquent man of letters, shaykh of hadith and rhetoric.