With Ibrāhīm ibn Adham
120 - Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated to me: Jaʿfar ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Rāzī narrated to me, saying: Ibrāhīm ibn Adham said one day: "O people of al-Shām! Do you wonder at me? The real wonder is the man from Alexandria, for I sought him in the mountains of Alexandria until I stumbled upon him after eight days while he was praying as if astounded. Then he turned his gaze toward me and said to me: 'Who are you?' I said: 'A Bedouin.' He said: 'Do you have something to tell us about?' He said: So I narrated to him five phrases, and he fainted while I was looking at him. Then he regained consciousness and said: 'Take this direction, and I will take that direction.'
I sought him after that, but I could not find him."
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