been thrown into confusion by this ordeal of mine. Whoever possesses any portion of my knowledge, let him read it to me, for my confirmation of what he reads is the same as if I were reading it to him myself.”
So they proceeded to read to him.
Talihtu: that is, I have become bewildered; the original form is walihtu, just as one says wujāh for tijāh (1).
Abū ʿAwānah narrated from Hilāl ibn Khabbāb, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās:
He would never enter the public bath except alone, wearing a thick garment, and he would say, “I feel shy before Allah to let Him see me in the bathhouse unclothed.”
Abū ʿAwānah narrated from Abū al-Juwayriyah, who said:
“I saw Ibn ʿAbbās’s izār (lower wrap) reaching to the middle of his calf—or even higher—and he was praying wrapped in a Roman woollen cloak.”
Rishdīn ibn Kurayb narrated from his father, who said:
“I saw Ibn ʿAbbās wearing a black turban; he would let a span of it hang down between his shoulders and likewise in front of him.” (2)
Ibn Jurayj narrated from ʿUthmān ibn Abī Sulaymān that Ibn ʿAbbās used to purchase a mantle for a thousand (dirhams).
Abū Nuʿaym reported: Salamah ibn Shābūr told us that a man once said to ʿAṭiyyah, “How narrow your sleeve is!”
He replied, “Such was the sleeve of Ibn ʿAbbās and Ibn ʿUmar.”