Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i

يعقوب بن يوسف أبو بكر المطوعي

Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i, who heard Ibn Hanbal and Ibn al-Madini; Ja'far al-Khaldi heard him say his youth's daily wird was the recitation of 'Qul huwa'llahu ahad' thirty-one or forty-one thousand times 1.

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ascetic · Scholar
Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i; he heard Ahmad b. Hanbal and 'Ali b. al-Madini, and al-Najjad and al-Khalidi transmitted from him. Ja'far al-Khalidi said: I heard Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i say, "my litany in my youth was to recite Qul huwa Allahu ahad thirty-one thousand times a day and night — or forty-one thousand." He died that year. 1

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 187
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