And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Tabbān reported that Ibn ʿAbdūs spent fourteen years performing the dawn prayer with the same ablution he had made for the night prayer, and he was the very picture of humility. ⦗1⦘
During a time of drought he distributed one hundred dinars from the yield of his estate.
It is further related that a man once came to him and asked, “What is your view concerning faith?”
“I am a believer,” he replied.
“In the sight of Allah as well?” the man pressed.
He answered, “As for the sight of Allah, I cannot make so definitive a claim for myself, for I do not know with what He will seal my life.”
The man spat in his face, whereupon he was struck blind on the spot. ⦗2⦘
He died not long after the year 260 AH.
47 – Aḥmad ibn Bakr, Abū Saʿīd al-Bālisi
The hadith transmitter and teacher Abū Saʿīd al-Bālisi ⦗3⦘—he is also called Aḥmad ibn Bakruwayh—narrated from Zayd ibn Ḥubāb, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab al-Qarqasānī, Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Qaṣrī, Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar, and others.
Those who transmitted from him include Muṭayyan, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Asfarāyinī, and Abū Isḥāq ibn Abī Thābit.
A single hadith of his is regarded as objectionable.
Ibn ʿAdī said: “Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūn narrated to us; Aḥmad narrated to us; …”