“I heard the Messenger of Allah—may peace and blessings be upon him—say: ‘Woe to the ankles from the Fire.’(1)
The ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿAlī al-Nīsābūrī said, “I travelled to Rayy, where ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Salm was residing; he was among the most accomplished in memorization of our teachers. He imparted to me narrations from Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Hisanjānī and others.
227 – Ibn Ḥayyūn, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥayyūn al-Andalusī
The imām, ḥāfiẓ, skilful and precise scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥayyūn al-Andalusī, al-Ḥijāri—with a rāʾ—so named after the city of Wādī al-Ḥijārah.(2)
He was counted among the critical ḥuffāẓ.
He received hadith from Muḥammad ibn Waḍḍāḥ, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Khushanī, Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dabarī al-Yamanī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Baghawī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, and their peers,
(1) Its transmitters are trustworthy. Imam Ahmad also recorded it (Musnad, 3:369) through Muhammad ibn Jafar – Shuba – Abu Ishaq, and (3:393) through Husayn – Yazid ibn Ata – Abu Ishaq. Ibn Majah (no. 454) narrated it via Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah – al-Ahwas – Abu Ishaq with the wording: “Woe to the ankles from the Fire.” It is likewise reported on the authority of Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As by Bukhari (1:132), Muslim (no. 241), Abu Dawud (no. 97) and al-Nasai (1:78); on the authority of Abu Hurayra by Bukhari (1:233), Muslim (no. 242), Tirmidhi (no. 41) and al-Nasai (1:77); and on the authority of Aisha by Muslim (no. 240) with the wording: “Woe to the heels from the Fire,” while another version in Muslim reads: “Woe to the ankles.”
(*) For biographical details, see: Ibn al-Faradi, Tarikh Ulama al-Andalus, 2:26-27; Ibn Bashkuwal, Jadhwat al-Muqtabis, p. 41; al-Samani, al-Ansab, fol. 156a; al-Dhahabi, Bughiyat al-Multamis, p. 55; Ibn Abd al-Hadi, Mukhtasar Tabaqat Ulama al-Hadith, fol. 133/2; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3:781-782; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 328; al-Maqari, Nafh al-Tib, 2:52; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, 2:246.
(2) A town in al-Andalus; see Yaqut, Mu jam al-Buldan, 5:343.