O splitter-open of knowledge for the God-fearing,
best of those who cried the talbiyah on the lofty ridge!

Mālik ibn Aʿyan (1) said in his praise:
When people seek the knowledge of the Qur’an,
Quraysh lives off his bounty.
And if it is said, “Grandson through the daughter of the Messenger,”
by that you have reached a lineage impossibly high.
Mountains circle, proclaiming the tahlīl for the night travellers—
mountains that bequeath knowledge as vast as mountains. (2)

Ibn ʿUqda related: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Najīḥ narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān al-Qurashī narrated to us from his uncle ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kathīr, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, who said:
“My father said: My grandfather al-Ḥusayn seated me in his lap and told me, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ conveys his salām to you.’” (3)

From Abān ibn Taghlib, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, who said:
“Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh came to me while I was at the kuttāb and said, ‘Uncover your stomach.’ I did so, and he pressed his belly against mine, then said, ‘The Messenger of Allah ordered me to convey his salām to you.’” (3)

Ibn ʿAdī said: “I do not know anyone who narrated this from Abān except al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Ṣāliḥ Abū Jamīlah al-Nakhkhās.”

Luwayn (4) narrated to us: Abū Yaʿqūb ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā said, “I saw on Abū—”