Allah. Abu ʿAmr al-Khaffāf took hold of its bridle, the Imam of Imams held his stirrup, and Abu Bakr al-Jārūdī together with Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Ṭālib were straightening his clothes. He did not stop any of them, and then he proceeded. ⦗1⦘

Abu Zakariyyā al-ʿAnbarī said: Al-Būshanji once said to me, “Well done.” He then turned to my father and said, “I have just told your son, ‘Well done’; had I said the same to Abū ʿUbayd, he would have rejoiced in it.” ⦗2⦘

Abu ʿAmr ibn Nujayd relates: I heard Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Ismāʿīl say, “I went forward to shake hands with Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Būshanji, seeking blessing thereby, but he pulled his hand away from me and said, ‘Abu ʿUthmān, I am not at that level.’” ⦗3⦘

Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī said: Al-Būshanji narrated to us—from Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, from Ibn Mahdī, from Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, from Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Umāmah, from his father—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Simplicity (badhādhah) is part of faith.” ⦗4⦘

Al-Būshanji added: “Badhā’ (vulgarity) is the opposite of badhādhah; badhā’ is nothing but excessive….”