Ibrahim ibn al-'Abbas al-Suli

Ibrahim ibn al-Abbas al-Suli, a poet. Al-Mas'udi gives his death as 246 AH. ²

Al-Mas'udi considers the best thing said about a hadith that never wearies to be his line: "I am never bored except at meeting a narrator of fine hadith, who adds to my learning." ³

Al-Mas'udi relates that an official dismissed him over a conspiracy, and refused his oath, saying that the sultan's oath was not an oath to him, because he was a Rafidi. He replied with words on rejection, brought out the register, and the conspiracy was unravelled. ²

He says, as al-Mas'udi relays: "The companions of the sultan are like a people who climbed a mountain and then fell from it: the nearest of them to destruction is the furthest from the climb." ²

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