169 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā ibn Kathīr al-ʿAnbarī related, from Khuzaymah Abū Muḥammad al-ʿĀbid:

Jaʿfar al-Aḥmar came to Yaḥyā ibn Salamah ibn Kuhayl seeking to borrow thirty dinars. Yaḥyā said to him, “My brother, why would you demean yourself by coming to me in person? Had you not sent me a single slip of paper, I would have sent the money to you ⦗134⦘.”

Later, when Jaʿfar lay dying, people said to Yaḥyā, “Release him from that obligation.” He replied, “I never even handed him the money, and I still intend to take it from him!”