Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Maḥmūd related: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Badr al-Qurashī say: ‘Before the time of prayer ʿAbd Allāh ibn Munir would be in Firabr, yet when the prayer was due people would find him in the mosque of Āmul. They therefore used to say, ‘He walks on water.’ ”
When this was mentioned to him he replied, “As for walking on water, I do not know; but when Allah wills, He brings the two banks of the river together so that a person may cross.”
He also said: “Whenever Ibn Munir left a gathering he would go out into the open country with some of his companions, collect plants such as soap-wort and the like, sell them in the market, and live on the proceeds. One day he went out with his companions and came upon a lion lying in their path. He told them, ‘Stay where you are,’ then advanced toward the lion. We do not know what he said to it, but the lion rose and departed.”
Ishāq ibn Rāhwayh was asked, “May a man enter the desert without provisions?” He answered, “If he is like ʿAbd Allāh ibn Munir, then yes.”
It was also said that Ibn Munir was counted among the Abdāl (substitute saints).
- Baḥshal, Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān * (M)
The ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), scholar, and muḥaddith: Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Wahb ibn Muslim al-Qurashī, a client of that clan, from Egypt, better known as Baḥshal (1), the nephew of Egypt’s eminent scholar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb.
He narrated copiously from his uncle in particular, as well as from al-Shāfiʿī, Bishr ibn Bakr al-Tinnīsī, and a group of others.