Mansur transmitted from him that he said, “When you see a man treating the opening takbir lightly, wash your hands of him.”

Ibn Saʿd said: ʿAli ibn Muhammad told us:

When al-Ḥajjaj set out to seize Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, his envoy arrived saying, “I want Ibrāhīm.” Ibrāhīm al-Taymī answered, “I am Ibrāhīm,” for he would not deem it lawful to direct the man to al-Nakhaʿī. Al-Ḥajjaj thereupon ordered that he be thrown into the dungeon—a place with neither shade from the sun nor shelter from the cold—while every two prisoners were bound together by one chain. Ibrāhīm wasted away; when his mother came to visit, she did not recognise him until he spoke to her, and he soon died.

Later al-Ḥajjaj saw in a dream someone saying, “Tonight a man from the people of Paradise has died in this town.” He asked who had died, and they replied, “Ibrāhīm al-Taymī passed away in the prison.” “A dream,” he scoffed, “one of Satan’s whisperings.” Then he ordered that the body be flung upon the refuse-heap. (1)

20 – ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm al-Bajalī (ʿ)

An imam, an unimpeachable authority, an exemplar, a god-fearing scholar; Abū al-Ḥakam al-Bajalī, of Kufa.

He narrated from al-Mughīra ibn Shuʿba, Abū Hurayra, and Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, though he was not a prolific transmitter.

Those who narrated from him include his son al-Ḥakam; ʿUmāra ibn al-Qaʿqāʿ; Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān; Saʿīd ibn Masrūq; Yazīd ibn Mardānaba; Fuḍayl ibn Marzūq; and others.

Bukayr ibn ʿĀmir said, “Had someone told him, ‘The Angel of Death is at your door,’ he would not have found any additional act of worship to perform. He could go two consecutive Fridays—a full fortnight—without eating.”