<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.”
<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.”
<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.