2.9.11 - Shaykh Ibn Humam

This Shaykh was accompanied at all times by one of the righteous, believing spirits. One day I went to visit him with our Shaykh Abu Muhammad al-Mawruri. When we arrived, I told him that I had brought one of the companions of Abu Madyan to see him. At this he smiled and said, How amazing! Only yesterday Abu Madyan was with me. It must be explained that Abu Madyan was at Bugia at the time, forty-five days journey distant. Thus, the visit of Abu Madyan to Abu al-Hajjaj had been of a subtle kind. The same sort of thing happened frequently between myself and the above-mentioned Abu Yaqoub. Indeed, Abu Madyan had long since ceased to travel in the ordinary way.

A great deal of what I remember of him cannot be recorded here, as is also the case with the others I have written about in this book. I have written of all of them only to show that our times are not completely lacking in Saintly men.