for them after me, I would have addressed him with such words that he would never again dare to disgrace me. (1)
Salamah ibn Wardān said: “I saw Anas wearing a black turban whose tail he had let fall down his back.”
Abu Ṭālūt ʿAbd al-Salām said: “I saw Anas wearing a turban.”
Hammād ibn Salamah, from Humayd, from Anas: “ʿUmar forbade us to engrave Arabic script on signet-rings.”
On Anas’s ring there was the image of a wolf—or perhaps a fox. (2)
Ibn Sīrīn said: “The engraving on Anas’s ring was that of a crouching lion.” (3)
Thumāmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: “Anas’s vineyard produced a harvest twice each year.” (4)
Sulaymān al-Taymī said: “I heard Anas say, ‘No one alive today has prayed toward both qiblahs except me.’” (5)
Al-Muthannā ibn Saʿīd said: “I heard Anas say, ‘Not a single night passes without my seeing my beloved,’ and then he would weep.” (6)
Hammād ibn Salamah, from Thābit, from Anas—when someone said to him, ‘Will you not relate something to us?’—he replied, “My son, whoever speaks too much ends up lapsing into idle talk.” (7)
(1) Reported by al-Tabarani (no. 704). The transmitter ʿAli ibn Zayd is weak, and for that reason al-Haythami judged the isnad defective in al-Majmaʿ, 7/274. The report is also found in Ibn ʿAsakir, 3/87a.
(2) All the narrators are trustworthy; the report is likewise cited by Ibn Saʿd, 7/18.
(3) The chain consists of reliable transmitters and is also recorded by Ibn Saʿd, 7/18.
(4) Cited by Ibn Saʿd, 7/20, through Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ansari, from his father, from Thumama.
(5) Recorded by al-Bukhari, 8/131, in the Tafsir of Surah al-Baqarah, chapter on the verse “qad naraa taqalluba wajhika fi al-samaa” (“We have certainly seen the turning of your face toward the heaven”); also by Ibn Saʿd, 7/20. The phrase “mimman salla al-qiblatayn” means that he prayed facing both directions: first Bayt al-Maqdis and later the Kaʿba.
(6) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 7/20, with a chain whose narrators are all deemed trustworthy.
(7) The transmitters are reliable; Ibn Saʿd also records it, 7/22, through Hammad ibn Salama, from Thabit—(the citation continues but is incomplete here).