be a beggar for the sake of science

Imam Baqi Al-Andalusi Bin Makhlad disguised as a beggar to listen to the knowledge of Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal rahimahullah.This is another story, including a unique story more interesting, what happened to a pious Maghrib region, from among the scholars of the Maghrib Aqsa traveling eastwards. A pious Maghreb region are traveling to the east to meet one of his Imam and take knowledge from him. However, when he reached him, he found it was in isolir and the gallant, humans should not be met. So, he blindly tactics and unique way, so he could meet him and take knowledge from him. The possible ways you never imagined, that if it did not happen. And, history is the father of wonder and uniqueness.

Listed in Manhajul Ahmad Al-Imam Ahmad Ashhabil Tarajim fi, works of Al-Ulaimi, I: 177; and in Ikhtisarun Nablusi li Thabaqatil Hanabilah, Ibn Ya'la, p.79, the biography of Imam Baqi bin Al-Andalusi Makhlad. He is Abu Abd Al-Baqi bin Makhlad Hafidz Al-Andalusi, was born in 201 H. He did a trip to Baghdad with his legs. Magnitude desire is met and imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal take knowledge from him.It is said of him, that he said, 'When I nearly reached Baghdad, I heard the news that hit the exam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. And, he was forbidden to hang out and listen to the knowledge of him. I'm very sad about it, then I'd pick a place to stop. After I put my luggage in the room that I was a contract in an inn, so I did not do anything but go to the mosque jami 'great. I want to sit with halaqah-halaqah there, and listen to what they are talking about.I went to a noble halaqah, there was a man who revealed the state of the narrators, he Da'eef to them and encourage them. I asked the people around me, 'Who is he?' He replied, "Yahya bin Ma'in. 'So, I see the open space nearby. I rushed over to him, saying, 'O Abu Zakariya, may Allah merahmatimu. I am a male migrants, the country far away. I want to ask, please do not meremehkanku. 'He said to me,' Say. "So, I asked him about some hadith experts who I meet. He recommended a good portion of them, and recommend a defect in part of another.At the end of the question, I asked him about Hisham bin Ammar, I own a lot of take knowledge from him. Yahya said, 'Ammar ibn Hisham Abul Walid, a prayer of Damascus, above bahakan tsiqah tsiqah. And, if there are any in his clothing he was carrying a vanity or pride, then it does not effect anything against him, for goodness and kemuliannya. "So, people who are in halaqah yelling, 'Just for you, may God merahmatmu, the other also have any questions. 'I also said, standing up, 'I ask you about a man, Ahmad bin Hanbal?' Then, Yahya bin Ma'in looked surprised, he said to me, 'People like us expose Ahmad bin Hanbal? He is the Imam kamum Muslims, the best and noblest of them. 'I knew the house was out menecari Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Then, someone showed me. I knocked on his door. He came out and opened the door. He saw a man who has not been met. I said, 'O Abu Abdillah, here's a man nomads, a country far away. This is the first arrival in this country. I search the hadith and sunnah collectors. I do not travel, but only to you. 'He said to me,' Come in the alley, and not to be seen by anyone. 'He asked me, 'Where is your country?' I replied, 'Maghreb region is far away.' He asked me, 'Africa?' I replied, 'Further. I crossed the ocean to arrive in Africa. Andalus country. 'He said,' Your country is really far away. There is nothing I love more than to help people like you with good, to fulfill his desire. Only, now I'm faced with something that might test you have to hear it. 'I said,' Right, I've listened to, when I went to see and nearly got here. 'I asked him, 'O Abu Abdillah, this is the first arrival times. I am a person who is not known among you. If you wish, I will come every day in the guise of beggars. At the door, I will say what is often spoken of beggars. Then, you come out to this place. If you do not pass every day but only one hadith it, then that's enough for me. 'He replied,' Yes, provided you do not appear in halaqah-halaqah, nor the hadith experts. 'I replied,' I promise . 'The next day, akau took a tree branch with my hand, then the head with a cloth bandage. Paper and ink I hide behind my sleeve. Then, I came to the door shouting, 'Pahala, may God bless you.' That is diterikkan by the beggars there. So, he came out to me and closed the door. He delivered two, three or more hadith to me.I kept doing that until people are attributing to him the exam was dead. After that, the leadership was taken over by people who cling to the schools Ahlussunnah. So, Ahmad bin Hanbal re-emerged, his name is on the rise. He was honored in the eyes of man, renowned stature, people came flocking. And, he's actually getting to know my patience. If I went to halaqahnya, he melapangkannya mendekatkanku me and to himself. He said to the experts of hadith, 'This person is entitled to his title as the search of knowledge.' Then he told my story with him. He handed me the hadith, read it to me, and I read it to him.One time, I fell ill. I'm trying to get well soon. Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal looking for me, because I was not present in the association. He asked about me, and one had told him about my illness. So, he stood up, walked to see me in a crowd. At that time, I was lying in the room that I rent, mats, and cloth-covered books in my head.I heard a noise in the inn. I heard them say, 'He's in there. Look at these imam of the Muslims to come. "The landlord came to me with haste. He said to me, 'O Abu Abdirrahman, this Abdillah Abu Ahmad bin Hanbal, the imam of the Muslims came to see you.'Imam Ahmad soon enter. He sat on the side of my head. The room was packed with people to not fit. Some of them are out of room to stand, while the pen clutched in their hands. Imam Ahmad did not tell me more than these words. He said, 'O Abu Abdirrahman, blessed with God's reward. You have been healthy through the day, that there is no pain to him. And, you are now going through sick days, that there are healthy as electronegative as him. May God magnify you to salvation, and healing to you rubbing his right hand. 'I see pens writing lafazh the Imam Ahmad said.Then, he left out. Thus, residents flocked mndatangiku inn, love me, and served with selfless faith and want to get a reward from Allah. Some are carrying mattresses, blankets and bring some foods are delicious. In treating myself who are sick, they are more attention than my family, if you're in the midst of them. That's because I have been in jenguk by a righteous man.Baqi bin Makhlad yahun died in 276 H. in Andalusia. May God merahamatinya.Sources: Fierce Patience The cleric, Sheik Abdul Fatah, Zam-Zam Wellspring of Science, 2008Original title: Shafahat min Shabril 'Ulama', Shaykh Abdul Fatah, Al-Maktab al-Islamiyya Mathbu'at cet. 1394 H./1974 M.