Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (6/239)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

do not ascend to heaven.

Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh said, “I once saw al-Aʿmash wearing his shirt inside-out and saying, ‘People are crazy; they put the rough side of the cloth against their skin.’

It is also reported that al-Aʿmash had a rather dull-witted son. He told him, ‘Go and buy us a clothesline.’
‘Father,’ the boy asked, ‘how long should it be?’
‘Ten cubits,’ he replied.
‘And how wide?’
‘As wide as the calamity I suffer because of you,’ al-Aʿmash answered.

Al-Aʿmash’s narrations from Anas ibn Mālik

Bībars al-ʿUqaylī and Ayyūb al-Asadī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣūfī informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Muqarrib informed us; Ṭirād al-Naqīb informed us; ʿAlī al-ʿIsawī informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-ʿAṭāridī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, who said:
“I saw Anas – may Allah be pleased with him – urinate. He then washed his private part thoroughly, performed ablution, wiped over his leather socks, led us in prayer, and related hadith to us in his home. ⦗1⦘”
This report possesses a reliable chain of transmission; al-Aʿmash makes clear that Anas ibn Mālik narrated to them in his own house.

Aḥmad ibn Salāmah informed us in writing; Abū al-Makārim al-Taymī informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣbahānī narrated to us; Ḥabīb al-Qazzāz narrated to us; Yūsuf al-Qāḍī narrated to us; Musaddad narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated to us, saying:
“I saw Anas ibn Mālik praying in the Sacred Mosque; when he raised his head from bowing, he straightened his back until his torso was completely upright. ⦗2⦘”
This chain of transmission is authentic.

(1) Ahmad b. Abd al-Jabbar is deemed unreliable; the report is also found in al-Khatib, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 9, p. 4. (2) Abu Nuaym, Hilyat al-awliya, vol. 5, p. 5.

لاَ تَصعدُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ. عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ بنِ عَيَّاشٍ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ الأَعْمَشَ يَلْبَسُ قَمِيْصاً مَقْلُوْباً، وَيَقُوْلُ: النَّاسُ مَجَانِيْنُ، يَجعلُوْنَ الخَشِنَ مُقَابلَ جُلُوْدِهم. وَقِيْلَ: إِنَّ الأَعْمَشَ كَانَ لَهُ وَلدٌ مُغفَّلٌ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: اذْهَبْ، فَاشترِ لَنَا حَبلاً لِلْغَسِيْلِ. فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَةِ! طُوْلُ كَمْ؟ قَالَ: عَشْرَةُ أَذرُعٍ. قَالَ: فِي عَرضِ كَمْ؟ قَالَ: فِي عَرضِ مُصِيْبَتِي فِيْكَ. ذِكْرُ رِوَايَةِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَنَسِ بنِ مَالِكٍ أَخْبَرَنَا بِيْبَرْسُ العُقَيْلِيُّ، وَأَيُّوْبُ الأَسَدِيُّ، قَالاَ: أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ سَعِيْدٍ الصُّوْفِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ المُقَرِّبِ، أَنْبَأَنَا طِرَادٌ النَّقِيْبُ، أَنْبَأَنَا عَلِيٌّ العِيْسَوِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ عَمْرٍو، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ عَبْدِ الجَبَّارِ العُطَارِدِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بنُ فُضَيْلٍ، عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ أَنَساً ﵁ بَالَ، فَغَسَلَ ذَكَرَهُ غَسلاً شَدِيْداً، ثُمَّ تَوَضَّأَ، وَمَسَحَ عَلَى خُفَّيْهِ، فَصَلَّى بِنَا، وَحَدَّثَنَا فِي بَيْتِهِ (١) . هَذَا حَدِيْثٌ صَالِحُ الإِسْنَادِ، بَيَّنَ فِيْهِ الأَعْمَشُ أَنَّ أَنَسَ بنَ مَالِكٍ حَدَّثَهُم فِي مَنْزِلِهِ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ سَلاَمَةَ كِتَابَةً، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو المَكَارِمِ التَّيْمِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الحَدَّادُ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ الأَصْبَهَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيْبٌ القَزَّازُ، حَدَّثَنَا يُوْسُفُ القَاضِي، حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيْسَى بنُ يُوْنُسَ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ أَنَسَ بنَ مَالِكٍ يُصَلِّي فِي المَسْجِدِ الحَرَامِ، إِذَا رَفَعَ رَأْسَه مِنَ الرُّكُوْعِ، رَفَعَ صُلبَه حَتَّى يَسْتَوِيَ بَطْنُه (٢) . هَذَا حَدِيْثٌ صَحِيْحٌ الإِسْنَادِ.

(١) أحمد بن عبد الجبار ضعيف، وأخرجه الخطيب في " تاريخ بغداد " ٩ / ٤. (٢) الحلية ٥ / ٥.