Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 3211
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ السُّلَمِيُّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ بْنَ مِقْسَمٍ،
يَقُولُ: مَاتَ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ يَعْنِي أَبَا مُحَمَّدٍ سَنَةَ وَقْعَةِ الْهُبَيْرِ مَاتَ عَطَشًا، بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ بَعْضَ الصُّوفِيَّةِ حُمِلَ إِلَيْهِ قَدَحًا مِنْ مَاءٍ يَشْرَبُهُ، فَنَظَرَ إِلَى مَنْ حَوْلَهُ فَقَالَ لِلَّذِي جَاءَ بِهِ: " وَيْحَكَ كَيْفَ أَشْرَبُ أَنَا وَهَؤُلَاءِ يَلْتَفُّونَ حَوْلِي، أَعْطِهِ مَنْ شِئْتَ مِنْهُمْ فَإِنْ كَانَ يَصِحُّ فِي وَقْتٍ إِيثارٌ فَفِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ "، وَمَاتَ عَطَشًا
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machine translationMuḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Sulamī informed us, he said: I heard Abū al-Ḥasan b. Miqsam,
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He said: Al-Jurayrī, that is Abū Muḥammad, died in the year of the battle of al-Hubayr; he died of thirst. It has reached me that a cup of water was brought to one of the Sufis to drink. He looked at those around him and said to the one who had brought it: "Woe to you! How can I drink while these people are gathered around me? Give it to whomever you wish among them. If selflessness (īthār) is ever valid at any time, then it is at a time like this." And he died of thirst.
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