Ṭāhir al-Mubārak, son (1) of Abū al-Maʿālī ibn al-Maʿṭūshī, informed us; Abū al-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muhtadī billāh transmitted to us; the shaykh (2) Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUmayr (3) al-Barmakī informed us; Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī related to me; Ḥamzah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿUmar al-Bazzāz narrated to me (4); ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd related to me (5); ʿAbbās ibn Dehqān narrated to me (6). He said: “I said to Bishr ibn al-Ḥārith, ‘I would like to spend some time alone with you.’ He replied, ‘Whenever you wish.’ So I came early one day and saw that he had entered a small pavilion, where he performed four rakʿahs of prayer such that I could not pray anything comparable. I then heard him saying in his prostration: ‘O Allah, You know—above Your Throne—that humiliation is dearer to me than honor. O Allah, You know—above Your Throne—that poverty is dearer to me than wealth. O Allah, You know—above Your Throne—that I prefer nothing over Your love.’ When I heard him, sobs and tears overwhelmed me. When he became aware of me he said, ‘You know that, had I known this person was here, I would not have spoken.’ (7)
91- The discerning shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Salāmah ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥarrānī informed us; he said: Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Nabḥān al-Ghanawī al-Raqqī narrated to us; he said: Shaykh al-Islām Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Qurashī al-Hakkārī informed us (8), saying: