A story from the book "Sabri Al-Safat min'Ulamā '" [Anecdotes on the perseverance of the Sages] of Shaykh' Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah (Translated by Shazia Ahmad):
here ... And [mention] another story, one of the most extraordinary that we can tell, that came when a wise Andalusia Andalusian journeyed to the East. He traveled this great distance walking on his legs alone [without the aid of a horse or a camel ride] with the objective to meet with an Imam of [larger] imam, and acquire knowledge from him. Upon his arrival, he learned that the imam had been put under house arrest and banned from public education. However, through some devices, the Andalusian scholar was finally able to learn from him .. And this story is full of such tricks, unusual and interesting ..
His name was Abu Abd ar-Rahman bin Baqīyy Makhlad Al-Andalus al-Hafidh. He was born in 201 H. [816 AD ndt] and died in 276, may God have mercy . He went on foot to Baghdad when he was about twenty, and its deepest and heartfelt desire was to meet the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and study with him.
"When I got near Baghdad, had news of the difficulties that had surrounded Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and had been forbidden to meet and communicate with him. I was very saddened by this news. I stopped where I was, and the first thing I did after renting a room for me, was to go to the grand mosque [in Baghdad]. I wanted to sit in class [which were held there] and hear what you were taught.
I bumped into a noble circle of knowledge [the mosque] in which a man was teaching about narrators of hadith , Explaining about the weakness of some of the reliability of narrators and others. I asked someone sitting next to me: " Who is that? ," and he replied: "That's Yahya ibn Ma'in . I saw that it was released at a place [in circle] close to the teacher, so I moved to occupy it and said, "Oh Abu Zakariyya, may God have mercy on you! [Are] foreign [among you], whose home is in a place far away. I have some questions, so do not disdegnatemi . He said, "Speak . So I asked him about some of the narrators ahadith I had met, and he praised some of them for their excellence, and warned of the weakness of others. I asked him a question about Hisham ibn 'Ammar, and demanded and obtained a large amount of knowledge he [..] when the people of the club said: " This is sufficient for you, may God use you mercy! Others have questions! .
Finally, getting up [to leave the meeting] I said: "I inform you about another person again, say that Ahmad ibn Hanbal? .
Yahya ibn Ma'in looked at me astonished and said, " How can we judge a person like Ahmad ibn Hanbal? He is the guide of the Muslims, the best and most honorable among them .
left the mosque and asked who I was shown the house of Imam Ahmad. I knocked on his door, and he replied. I said: "Abu Abdallah Oh, I'm a stranger, [coming] from a place far away, and this is the first time I go in this land. I am a student of Hadith , and one that is linked to Sunnah. I made this trip just to meet you .
said: " Enter from the alley side of the house, and is' so that no one sees you .
So I said, " Where is your home? . "I said," In the far West . "Churches" In Africa? . "I said," further. I would have to cross the sea to reach from my home to Africa. E 'Andalusia .
said: " Your house is really a great distance from here. And there is nothing dearer to me than helping someone like you to achieve what they are looking for, but at this point I am confronted by this difficulty, which may already be aware .. .
replied: " In fact, the news reached me while I was approaching the city to visit you .. O Abu Abdallah, this is my first time on this earth, and I am unknown to its people. If I may, I will come to you every day as a beggar, and speak in the way they speak, and you can come to the door. If you told me every day just one hadith [so] that I just ".
He accepted, provided that no share in the circles of knowledge and met with the scholars of Hadith [of the city, so I stayed unknown among the people].
So I began by picking up a stick to support me, to wrap his head in an old rag, and hiding a pen and paper sleeve, going to her door shouting: " [Make love ] to the reward of God, may God have mercy on you! ", as used to make the other beggars. Every time he went out, closing the door behind him, told me two or three hadith, or sometimes more, until about three hundred collezionai ahadith in this way.
I continued doing this until the ruler who was persecuting the Imam Ahmad died, and his place was someone who adhered to the madhhab Sunnah. Imam Ahmad then resumed teaching, his name became famous, and he was honored and loved by the people. His rank was high, and many people flocked to him to study.
He would always remember my perseverance in trying to learn from him. When I attended his lectures, he was always a little 'space next to him, because I could sit next to him, and said other students: " He is someone who has earned the title of Tālibul-'Ilm ", and told them my story. I then narrated a hadith and I recited it to him.
One day I got sick, and was absent from his classes for some time . He asked me [other students] knew that I was sick and when he got up immediately to come and visit me, and the students followed him. I was lying in the room I had rented, a poor wool blanket under me and thin dress that covers me, with my books near the top [so I could study lying].
The house was literally shaken by the noise many people [who were entering]. The caretaker ran to me, saying, "Oh Abu Abd ar-Rahman, Abu Abdullah Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Imam of the Muslims, came to visit you! .
Imam entered my room and sat down next to my bed and the house was filled with his students. It was not big enough to house them all, and a group of them had to remain standing, all with pens in hand. Imam Ahmad said: "Oh Abu Abd ar-Rahman, have the good news of the reward of God in the days of health, often fail to reflect on the disease, and sick days do not we remember our health. May God return you good health and wellbeing, and may He touch you with His right hand in the healing . "And I saw the room around each pen, to write his words.
He left. After that day, the employees of my home were extremely kind to me, and they were constantly in my service, one of them carried a mat to lean on, another bringing a good pool and good food to eat . They treated me better than a family, as a man of such rectitude had come to visit me .. "
He died in 276 H. (890 AD ndt), Andalusia. May God have mercy on him .
[..] His student Abu Abdul Malik Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qurtubi said of him:
" Baqīyy ibn Makhlad was tall, strong and had great endurance in walking. I never saw him never on a horse, ever. He was humble and unpretentious, and always attended funeral prayers .
" Baqīyy ibn Makhlad was tall, strong and had great endurance in walking. I never saw him never on a horse, ever. He was humble and unpretentious, and always attended funeral prayers .
As has been excellent, his perseverance and his passion for sacred knowledge, and what has been his great effort to get it and collect!
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