Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Muʾaddib told us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzim the ḥāfiẓ told us; Muhammad ibn Ḥamd told us in the year 592 AH; ʿAli ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mawṣilī informed us; ʿAli ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Qusaym informed us; ʿAli ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Qadi informed us; Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Muḥāmilī narrated to us; Yaʿqūb narrated from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah:
“Whenever the Prophet ﷺ was in iʿtikāf (spiritual retreat), he would lean his head toward me so I could comb it; and he would not enter the house except to attend to a human need.”
Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it (1) through Yaʿqūb al-Dawraqī.
223 – al-Kafratābī, Abu al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bayān
The shaykh, senior transmitter (musnid), and teacher: Abu al-Faḍl ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Bayān ibn Sālim ibn al-Khaḍir al-Kafratābī, later of Damascus; an accomplished archer and bow-maker.
Birth: in Shawwal (2), 577 AH.
He heard several fascicles from Yaḥyā al-Thaqafī and was the sole transmitter of some of them.
Those who transmitted from him include: al-Dumyāṭī; the preacher Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Fazārī; Abu ʿAlī ibn al-Khallāl; al-Najm ibn al-Khabbāz; Aḥmad ibn ʿUbādah; ʿAlī al-Gharrāwī; al-Shams ibn al-Zarrād; Abu al-Hasan al-Kindī; al-Fakhr ibn ʿAsākir; and others.
He died on the twenty-first of Shawwal, 656 AH.