He, peace and blessings be upon him, also said: “Women and perfume have been made dear to me.” (1)
He said as well: “It is as though you knew how much we love meat.”
He loved ʿĀʾishah, loved her father, loved Usāmah, loved his two grandsons, loved sweets and honey, loved Mount Uhud, loved his homeland, loved the Anṣār, and countless other things that no believer can ever dispense with.
He died in 337 AH.
217 – Abū al-ʿArab Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Tamīm al-Maghribī*
The erudite scholar, the muftī, the polymath—Abū al-ʿArab Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Tamīm ibn Tammām al-Maghribī, al-Ifrīqī.
His grandfather (2) was among the emirs of Ifriqiyah.
Abū al-ʿArab studied under a large number of teachers, including many of Sahnūn’s companions and others, and he authored several works.
He transmitted hadith from ʿĪsā ibn Miskīn and Abū ʿUthmān ibn al-Ḥaddād.
(1) Al-Nasaʾi, 7/61 (the opening of the section “The Ten Concerning Women”), and Ahmad, 3/128, 199, 285, all transmit—through several chains—from Salam Abu al-Mundhir, from Thabit, from Anas: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Women and perfume have been made dear to me from this world, and the delight of my eyes is in the prayer.” The chain is sound, and al-Hakim classed the hadith as authentic.
Notice: Some narrators add after the phrase “made dear to me from this world” the word “three,” an irregular addition absent from the recognized hadith collections; it distorts the meaning, for prayer is not among worldly matters.
(*) ʿUlama Afrikiyya, 226; Tartib al-Madarik, 3/334-336; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/889-890; al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, 2/39; al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab, 250-251; Maʿalim al-Iman, 3/42-47; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, 363.
(2) The original manuscript reads: “their grandfather.”