5:02 PM – 11 Jan 2019
It is not from
Manliness that I inform You (UNNECESSARILY) about my Age
Ibn Shakwāl
(d. 578 h.) said: I read, in the writing of Abul-Hasan ibn Al-llbīrī Al-Muqrī' that he said:
I asked Al-Qādī
Abū Zayd how old he was, and he said: I’m not going to tell you my age, because
I asked Abū ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Mansūr At-Tustarī about his age and he said:
It is not from manliness for me to inform you of my age. Because I asked my
Shaykh, ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhāb Al-Asbahānī about his age and he said: It
is not from manliness for me to inform you of my age. Because I asked my Shaykh
Ahmad ibn Ibrāhim ibn As-Sahāb about his age and he said: It is not from
manliness for me to inform you of my age. Because I asked Al-Mizzī about his
age and he said: It is not from manliness for me to inform you of my age. For I
asked Ash-Shāfi’ī about his age and he said: It is not from manliness for me to
inform you of my age. For I asked Mālik ibn Anas about his age and he said: It
is not from manliness that I inform of my age. For when a man informs (another man) about his age, if he is an
elder then he will be little him due to old age, and if he is younger then he
will be little him due to being young.
Source:
As-Silah Fī Tārīkh A’imah Al-Andalus (pg. 326)
Trans. by Raha Batts
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