and would grind, with one hand, two mudd of wheat.

Abū Yūsuf al-Ghassūlī said: “Al-Awzāʿī once invited Ibrāhīm ibn Adham. He ate only a little, so al-Awzāʿī asked, ‘Why so sparing?’ He replied, ‘I saw that you yourself had reduced the amount of food.’ (1)

Bishr al-Ḥāfī narrated through Yaḥyā ibn Yamān: “Whenever Sufyān sat with Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, he guarded his speech.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī transmitted from Ṭālūt: “I heard Ibrāhīm ibn Adham say, ‘No servant who loves renown has ever been truthful with Allah.’

I say: The mark of a sincere man who may love publicity without realising it is that, when he is reproved for it, he neither takes offense nor hastens to exonerate himself. Rather, he admits it and says, ‘May Allah have mercy on the one who gifts me my faults.’ He is not self-admiring; he is unaware of his own flaws—indeed, unaware that he is unaware—for that is a chronic disease.

ʿiṣām ibn Rawwād said: I heard ʿĪsā ibn Ḥāzim al-Naysābūrī say: “We were in Mecca with Ibrāhīm ibn Adham. Looking toward Abū Qubays (2) he said, ‘If a believer whose faith is complete were to shake that mountain, it would move.’

The mountain of Abū Qubays thereupon moved, and he said, ‘Be still; it was not you I meant.’ (3)

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā reported: Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr narrated to us, from al-Ḥārith ibn al-Nuʿmān: “Ibrāhīm ibn Adham used to pick fresh dates from the oak trees.”