الحربي

الحربي

285 ھ

Author of Gharib al-Hadith and Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, and one of those who transmitted Imam Ahmad's school from him. Ibn al-Jawzi places his death in 285 and preserves his famed austerity: born 198 at Marw, he wore a clean shirt and a soiled izar without ever thinking them equal, walked all Baghdad with one sandal-strap broken for ten years telling no one of his ailments, and lived thirty years on a loaf or two a day — when asked how he had gathered his books he answered 'with my flesh and blood' ¹.