He answered, “That is out of the question.”
The man said, “Then at least give it to your companions.”
He replied, “I do not eat it—shall I hand it to someone else!”
The man walked away, whereupon Ibn al-Qāsim said to me, “This is the interpretation of the dream.”
People used to say that most of that village consisted of charitable endowments that had been unlawfully seized.
Al-Hārith ibn Miskīn said, “Ibn al-Qāsim’s scrupulousness and renunciation were something astonishing.”
Yūsuf ibn Abī Naṣr, ‘Abd Allāh ibn Qawwām, and a group of others informed us, saying:
Al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mubārak informed us; ‘Abd al-Awwal informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Dāwūdī informed us; Abū Muḥammad ibn Ḥammūyah informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf reported to us; Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Bukhārī narrated to us; Sa‘īd ibn Talīd narrated to us; Ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us, from Bakr ibn Muḍar, from ‘Amr ibn al-Ḥārith, from Yūnus, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sa‘īd ibn al-Musayyib and Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Had I remained in prison as long as Joseph remained, and the summoner then came to me, I would have answered him.’ ” (1) … the remainder of the hadith.
Al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī informed us; Ja‘far ibn Munīr informed us; Abū Muḥammad al-‘Uthmānī informed us; Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shibl informed us; ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn the jurist informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ajdābī reported to us; Hibat Allāh ibn Abī ‘Uqbah al-Tamīmī reported to us; Jabalah ibn Ḥammūd al-Ṣadafī reported to us; —