The father of Abee Aasim said: I heard my son narrate from Abu Abdullah al-Kasa`i; I heard ibn Abee Aasim say:
When the affair of al-Alawee occurred in Basrah all of my books were lost, so I re-wrote fifty thousand ahadith from memory. I used to go to the greengrocers’ shop and write using the light of his lamp. Then I realised that I had not asked the permission of the owner of the lamp to sit in its light so I went to the sea and washed away all I had written and wrote it again.
[Siyar a’laam an-Nubalaa’ 13/430-439]
2 Comments
August 10, 2007 at 19:08
takbeer! you finally posted it <3
August 27, 2007 at 03:30
As-salaamu’alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu
Masha’Allah, your blog is so wonderful.. I could sit here the whole day reading and learning, insha’Allah.
Jazak’Allah for this post, it’s new to me.
Wa’alaykum as-salaam
Farhana