of his need, whereupon she said, “The very first thing that comes into my hands I will send to you.”
Ten thousand dirhams soon reached her, and she exclaimed, “How quickly you have been tried, ʿĀʾishah!” She then forwarded the money to him, and with it he purchased a slave-girl who bore him three sons: Muḥammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar.
Abū Khaythamah, Ibn Saʿd, and several others gave Muḥammad the teknonym Abū ʿAbd Allāh, whereas al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and al-Nasāʾī called him Abū Bakr.
Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī said, “He reached the pinnacle of precision, memorization, and asceticism; he is an authoritative proof.”
Al-Humaydī reported—Sufyān told us—that Ibn al-Munkadir used to say, “How many sleepless eyes are laboring for my provision in the darkness of land and sea!” Whenever he wept, he would pass his tears across his face and beard and say, “I have been informed that the Fire does not consume any spot that tears have touched.”
It is also related that he would borrow money in order to perform the pilgrimage; when people remonstrated with him about that he replied, “I hope to repay it.”
Sahl ibn Maḥmūd reported—Sufyān told us—that Ibn al-Munkadir devoted himself to worship while still a youth; they were a household of devotion.
Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr said, “Muḥammad, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar⦗1⦘—no one could say which of them was the most virtuous.”
Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir reported that Ibn al-Munkadir said, “I enter into the night and its awe overwhelms me; when dawn arrives I have still not satisfied my yearning of it.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd said, “I saw Ibn al-Munkadir praying at the front of the mosque. When he finished he would walk a little, then face the qiblah, raise his hands and supplicate; he would then turn away from the qiblah, spread out his hands and supplicate again. He would do that as he departed, like one bidding farewell.”
Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: Ismāʿīl ibn Yaʿqūb al-Taymī narrated to me that Ibn al-Munkadir would sit with his companions, and periods of silence would overtake him; he would then stand up just as he was until