28 – I read before Abū al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad ibn al-Mubārak ibn Saʿd; (my grandfather informed you)(1) Abū al-Maʿālī Thābit ibn Bundār ibn Ibrāhīm, who said(2): Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Dūmā narrated to us; Makhlad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us; (Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qaṭṭān narrated to us; Ismāʿīl ibn ʿĪsā al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us)(3); Isḥāq ibn Bishr narrated to us; ʿUthmān ibn al-Sāj informed me, from Muqātil ibn Ḥayyān, from Abū al-Jārūd al-ʿAbdī, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said:

“A report concerning qiṣāṣ (retaliatory justice) reached me, and its transmitter was in Egypt. So I bought a camel, fitted a saddle to it, and travelled for a full month until I arrived in Egypt. I asked about the narrator of the ḥadīth and was directed to him. He had a solid, plastered door(4) and a black servant-boy. I said, ‘Is your master here?’ The boy kept silent, then went inside and told his master that a Bedouin man was at the door. The man came out to me and said(5), ‘Who are you?’ I replied, ‘I am(6) Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh.’ He said, ‘Enter.’ So I entered and said to him(7): ‘News has reached me(8) that you relate a ḥadīth on qiṣāṣ from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I was not present to hear it, and no one preserves it better than you.’ He replied, ‘Indeed, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “Allah will resurrect you on the Day of Resurrection barefoot, naked, uncircumcised, buhman (possessing nothing)(9); then He will call out—”