a dream. He was asked, “What has Allah done with you?” He answered, “He has exalted me in this world and the next because of that righteous man’s supplication.”

Muḥammad ibn Makhlad the ‘Aṭṭār said: I heard Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī say, “I do not know any group better than the people of ḥadith. One of them sets out in the morning with his inkwell and asks, ‘How did the Prophet ﷺ act? How did he pray?’ Beware of sitting with the people of innovation, for when a man approaches with an innovation he will never prosper.”

Abū Ayyūb al-Jallāb Sulaymān ibn Isḥāq related: Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī said to me, “Whenever a man hears something of the Prophet’s etiquette ﷺ, he ought to cling to it.”

Someone asked Ibrāhīm, “They say that a person dominated by black bile has a good memory—is that true?” He replied, “No. Black bile is the sister of phlegm; its bearer retains nothing. The one whose temperament is governed by yellow bile is the one who remembers.”

ʿUthmān ibn Ḥamdawayh al-Bazzāz said: I heard Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī say, “One day Judge Abū Yūsuf came out while the people of ḥadith were gathered at the door. He said, ‘There is no one on earth better than you; you have come early to hear the ḥadith of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.’”

Hibatu’llāh al-Lālkāʾī reported: I heard Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣaqr say, I heard Abū’l-Ḥasan ibn Quraysh say, “I was present with Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī when Judge Yūsuf arrived with his son Abū ʿUmar. Yūsuf said to him, ‘Abū Isḥāq, were we to come to you in proportion to the right you have over us, all our time would be spent with you.’

“Ibrāhīm replied, ‘Not every absence is estrangement, nor is every meeting affection; what truly matters is the closeness of hearts.’”

Al-Ḥākim said: I heard Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṣaffār say, I heard Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī—who narrated a ḥadith from Ḥumayd ibn Zanjūyah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿIjlī—then say, “O Allah, to You belongs all praise,” and he raised his hands and praised Allah, then said, “I have…"