نصر بن العطار الحراني

Nasr b. Mansur al-Harrani, known as Ibn al-'Attar; a great merchant of much wealth, a reader of the Qur'an, who clothed the naked, ransomed captives, heard hadith and visited the righteous. ¹

Al-'Ukbari said: "I saw the Prophet in a dream and said, pass your hand over my eyes for they hurt me; he said, go to Abu Nasr Ibn al-'Attar. I thought: leave the Messenger of God and go to a man of the world's folk? He came again and said: have you not heard the hadith that charity falls into the hand of God before it falls into the hand of the beggar — and among us is Nasr, whose hand has shaken the hand of Truth? I awoke, went to him; he wiped my eyes and recited the Mu'awwidhat and the pain was gone." Thereafter Nasr never took his evening meal without bread in his sleeve until he died; his tarjama is in the annals of 553. ¹