2021-06-06 16:06:38
ʿAllān al-Warrāq said: I saw al-ʿItābī eating bread in the pathway at Bāb al-Shām, I said to him: “Woe to you, do you have no shame (ie: because eating in public was considered bad manners in that society)?”
أنا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ النِّعَالِيُّ، أنا أَبُو الْفَرَجِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ أَخْبَرَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ نا ابْنُ مَهْرَوَيْهِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، قَالَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَلَّانُ الْوَرَّاقُ، قَالَ: " رَأَيْتُ الْعَتَّابِيَّ يَأْكُلُ خُبْزًا عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ بِبَابِ الشَّامِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: وَيْحَكَ أَمَا تَسْتَحِي؟
He said to me: “If we were in a building full of cows, would you be ashamed of eating while they looked at you?”
فَقَالَ لِي: أَرَأَيْتَ لَوْ كُنَّا فِي دَارٍ فِيهَا بَقَرٌ أَكُنْتَ تَحْتَشِمُ أَنْ تَأْكُلَ وَهِيَ تَرَاكَ؟
I answered: “No.”
فَقُلْتُ: لَا
He said: “Be patient while I show you that they are only cows.”
قَالَ: فَاصْبِرْ حَتَّى أُعَلِّمَكَ أَنَّهُمْ بَقَرٌ
He then stood up, delivered a sermon, told stories and supplicated until there was a big crowd around him,
ثُمَّ قَامَ فَوَعَظَ وَقَصَّ وَدَعَا حَتَّى كَثُرَ الزِّحَامُ عَلَيْهِ
He then said: “It was narrated to us with more than one chain of narration that whoever has a tongue that can reach the tip of his nose will not enter the Hellfire.”
ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ: رُوِيَ لَنَا مِنْ غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ أَنَّ مَنْ بَلَغَ لِسَانُهُ أَرْنَبَةَ أَنْفِهِ لَمْ يَدْخُلِ النَّارَ
There was no one in the crowd except that he was trying to see if his tongue would reach the tip of his nose.
قَالَ: فَمَا بَقِيَ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا أَخْرَجَ لِسَانَهُ يُومِيءُ بِهِ نَحْوَ أَرْنَبَتِهِ وَيُقَدِّرُهُ هَلْ يَبْلُغُهَا؟
When the crowd dispersed al-ʿItābī said to me: “Did I not I tell you they were cows?”
فَلَمَّا تَفَرَّقُوا " قَالَ لِي الْعَتَّابِيُّ: «أَلَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ أَنَّهُمْ بَقَرٌ»
al-Khaṭīb al-Baġdādī, al-Jāmiʿ li Akhlāq ʾl-Rāwī wa Ādāb ʾl-Sāmīʿ 2/167 #1507
الخطيب البغدادي، الجامع لأخلاق الراوي وآداب السامع ٢/١٦٧ #١٥٠٧
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