—so judges and antagonists rise up against him. We ask Allah for a good end and for sincerity in our deeds.
In spite of his standing in Egypt, Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam would ride a small, weak donkey and remained humble in his affairs. As we have said, his father was among the leading jurists and a pupil of Mālik.
Ibn Yūnus states: “Muhammad died on Wednesday, the fifteenth of Dhū al-Qaʿdah in the year 268 AH, and the judge Bakkār ibn Qutaybah led the funeral prayer over him.”
I add: He composed a beneficial work on judicial etiquette.
Khādijah bint ʿAlī (1) informed us; Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid told us; ʿAbd al-Munʿim ibn al-Furāwī related to us; ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Shīrawī (2) conveyed to us; Abū Saʿīd al-Ṣayrafī narrated; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm narrated; Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam narrated; Anas ibn ʿIyāḍ narrated, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah—
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “A woman was tormented because of a cat she had confined until it died of hunger; she neither fed it nor released it so that it might eat the vermin of the earth.” (3)