intended to sell it to those who came last night (1).
Ghunjar said: Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥamd al-Malāḥimī narrated to us—I heard Muḥammad ibn Ṣābir ibn Kātib say, “I heard ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ al-Ashqar declare: We were in Basra writing hadith with al-Bukhārī when he disappeared for a few days. We later found him in a room with no clothes; everything he had was gone. So we gathered some dirhams for him and clothed him (2).”
Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim said: I heard Abū ʿAbd Allāh remark, “A Muslim should never be in a condition where, were he to supplicate, his prayer would not be answered.”
His brother’s wife, who was present, said to him, “Have you noticed that about yourself, O Shaykh, or have you tested it?”
He replied, “Yes. I called upon my Lord twice, and He answered me. After that I have no wish to supplicate again, lest it diminish my good deeds or hasten my reward in this world.”
Then he added, “What need has a Muslim for lying or for miserliness?!”
Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥātim also related: I heard al-Bukhārī say, “I travelled to Adam ibn Abī Iyās, but my funds ran out, to the point that I began eating grass and told no one. On the third day someone I did not recognize came to me, handed me a purse of dinars, and said, ‘Spend on yourself’ (3).”
And he said: I heard al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Samarkandī state, “Alongside all his other commendable qualities, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl was marked by three traits in particular: he spoke little, and he never coveted what people possessed,