Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir also reported it through the chain of Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Ibn ʿAjlān, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), stating that this took place when he had reached eighty years of age (1).

Ibn Ḥibbān related (2) on the authority of ʿAbd al-Razzāq that he said: “al-Qadūm is the name of a village.”

I say: What appears in the Ṣaḥīḥ (3) is that he was circumcised after eighty years had passed for him, and in another wording, “when he was eighty years old.” Neither version mentions how long he lived thereafter; Allah knows best.

Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ḥayyānī al-Wāsiṭī said (4) that Wakīʿ, in his Tafsīr, recorded an additional report. He said: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

“Abraham was the first to wear trousers, the first to part his hair, the first to shave the pubic region, and the first to be circumcised with the adze when he was one hundred and twenty years old; he lived eighty years thereafter. He was also the first to entertain a guest and the first person to turn grey.”

He transmitted this as a mawqūf report, though it more closely resembles a marfūʿ report, contrary to Ibn Ḥibbān; Allah knows best.

Mālik narrated, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, who said:

“Abraham was the first to show hospitality to guests, the first human being to be circumcised, the first to trim his mustache, and the first to notice grey hair.

He said, ‘My Lord, what is this?’

Allah said, ‘Dignity.’

He said, ‘My Lord, increase me in dignity.’” (7)

Others add: he was also the first to trim the mustache, the first to shave the pubic region, and the first to wear trousers.

His grave, together with the grave of his son Isaac and that of his grandson Jacob, lies within the quadrangle that Solomon son of David — peace be upon them — built in the town of Hebron, the place known today as al-Khalīl. This has been accepted by continuous, unanimous transmission from one community to the next and generation after generation, from the time of the Children of Israel until our own day, that his grave is indeed inside that enclosure. As for pinpointing its exact location, no sound report from an infallible source exists. Hence that precinct should be regarded with due reverence, honored as befits it, venerated, and kept from being walked upon, lest the grave of the Friend or that of any of his prophet-descendants — peace be upon them — be situated beneath it.