Monday, October 23, 2017

I saw Imam al-Lālikā’ī in a dream, so I asked him...


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ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Jidà al-ʿUkbarī said, I saw Hibatulla aṭ-Ṭabarī (al-Lālikā’ī) in a dream;

I asked him; “What did Allah do with you?” He said; “He forgave me.” So I asked; “Due to what?” He said to me quietly, “Due to the Sunnah.”

See Siyar A’lam al-Nubalà’,
adh-Dhahabī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad. Bayrut: Mu’assāt al-Risalah, 1988 (17/419)


TRANSLATOR: Ṣalaḥ al-Irānī (may Allaah preserve him)

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SOURCE: https://twitter.com/SalahIranee/status/920883008453869573, 18/10/2017, 10:23 PM