Sahnūn informed me; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim informed me; Mālik narrated to me; from Abū al-Zinād; from al-Aʿraj; from Abū Hurayrah:
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Allah said: ‘When My servant loves to meet Me, I love to meet him; and when he dislikes meeting Me, I dislike meeting him.’” (1)
Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ghassān informed us; ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Nasīb informed us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Sumaysāṭī informed us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Ibn Jawṣā informed us; ʿĪsā ibn Mathrūd narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us; Mālik narrated to me; from Ibn Shihāb; from ʿUrwah; from ʿĀʾishah:
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray eleven units at night, making one of them the witr, then he would lie on his right side until the muʾadhdhin came to him, whereupon he would rise and pray two light rakʿahs.
Muslim alone transmitted it (2) through Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī from Mālik.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: Ibn al-Qāsim was born in the year 132 AH and died in Ṣafar of the year 191 AH—he lived fifty-nine years.
40 – Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Maʿdān al-Iṣbahānī*
The ascetic, the devout worshipper, the exemplar; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Iṣbahānī, “the bridegroom of the ascetics.”