Al-Arbaʿūn al-Taymiyya - Ibn Taimiya - (144)

The venerable, noble shaykha Umm al-ʿArab Fāṭimah daughter of Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAsākir informed us; the book was read to her while I listened in Ramaḍān of the year 681 AH, together with Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Shaybān and Sitt al-ʿArab daughter of Yaḥyā ibn Qaymaz.

They said:
Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Tabarzad informed us, the text being read to him while we listened. He was informed by Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥuṣayn al-Shaybānī—this, too, was read to him—who was informed by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Muzakkī al-Naysābūrī, the text being read to him in the year 354 AH, who was informed by Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, who said: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us; Jaʿfar ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Thābit, from Anas, who said:

“We were overtaken by rain while we were with the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—so he uncovered his head until the rain fell upon it, and I said to him:

أَخْبَرَتَنَا الشَّيْخَةُ الْجَلِيلَةُ الْأَصِيلَةُ أُمُّ الْعَرَبِ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي مُحَمَّدِ الْقَاسِمِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ هِبَةِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَسَاكِرَ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ فِي رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ ٦٨١، وَأَبُوالْعَبَّاسِ بْنُ شَيْبَانَ، وَسِتُّ الْعَرَبِ بِنْتُ يَحْيَى بْنِ قَايْمَازَ، قَالُوا: أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَفْصٍ عُمَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ طَبَرْزَدَ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ وَنَحْنُ نَسْمَعُ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ هِبَةُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْمُزَكِّي النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ فِي سَنَةِ ٣٥٤، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ: " مُطِرْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَحَسَرَ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ حَتَّى أَصَابَهُ الْمَطَرُ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: