7.10. SAMNUN’S AFFLICTION
Abu Nu’aym al-Asbahanl relates from Abu Bakr al-Wasiti that Samnun said: ‘O Lord, I am content with everything you decree for me!’ At that very instant, he was unable to urinate for fourteen days. He would bend like a snake, left and right. When he was finally able to urinate again he said: ‘O Lord, I have repented to you!’
Abu Nu’aym said: “This was the contentment Samnun claimed, but the first minor affliction proved him wrong.” This was in spite of the fact that stories about Samnun were famous and his special love for God was well- known. It is narrated that Ibrahim Ibn Fatik said: T saw Samnun address the people in the Sacred Masjid. A small bird came and approached him and finally sat on his hand. Then it began pecking the ground till it was bleeding and finally died.” He also said: “I saw him talking about love one day when the candles of the Masjid suddenly collapsed on each other and broke.’
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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