Abu ash-Shaykh said: I heard my son narrate
from Abu Abdullaah al-Kasaa`ee; 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 ahaadeeth 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.
[Ibn
Katheer, ‘al-Bidaayah wan Nihaayah’ (11/96); adh-Dhahabee, ‘Siyar’
(13/430-439); Ibn Hajr, ‘Lisaan al-Meezaan’ (7/298)]
Excerpt from: Biographies of the Early Salaf 1
: (151H - 400H) | A Brief Biography of Ibn Abee Aasim ash-Shaybaanee | Article ID : SRH040002
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