Sahl ibn abd allah al-Tostari radiallahu anhu

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  1. abu nibras

    abu nibras Staff Member

    <center>Sahl ibn abd allah al-tostari :ra:

    Taken from the English translation of tadhkiratul awlia by A.J Arberry



    Many lions and other wild beasts used to visit Sahl,

    and he would feed and tend them. Even today Sahl’s

    house in Tostar is called “the house of the wild beasts.”
     
  2. abu nibras

    abu nibras Staff Member

    <center>Sahl ibn abd allah al-tostari :ra:

    Taken from the English translation of tadhkiratul awlia by A.J Arberry



    Sahl used to walk on the water without his feet being

    so much as moistened.

    “People say,” someone observed, “that you walk on

    water.” - “Ask the muezzin of this mosque,” Sahl replied. “He

    is a truthful man.”



    “I asked him,” the man said. “The muezzin told me,

    ‘I never saw that. But in these days he entered a pool to

    wash. He fell into the pool, and if I had not been on the

    spot he would have died there.’”

    When Abu Ali-e Daqqaq heard this story, he commented,

    “He had many miraculous powers, but he

    wished to keep them hidden.”
     
  3. abu nibras

    abu nibras Staff Member

    <center>Sahl ibn abd allah al-tostari :ra:

    Taken from the English translation of tadhkiratul awlia by A.J Arberry



    After his long vigils and painful austerities Sahl lost

    his physical control, suffering from blennorrhoea, so

    much so that he had to go to the privy several times an

    hour. To ease matters, he always kept a jar handy

    because he could not govern himself. When the time

    for prayer came round, however, the flow ceased. He

    would then perform his ablutions and pray, and resume

    as before. Whenever he mounted the pulpit, his blennorrhoea

    ceased completely, and all his pain would vanish.

    As soon as he came down from the pulpit, his ail-

    ment would show itself again. In all this, he never failed

    to observe even a tittle of the sacred Law.
     

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