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return my notes to me and told him they would be of no use to him. The
leader asked, 'What are your notes?' I replied: the books I wrote in this sack. I
left my home to hear, know its knowledge and write it. Upon hearing this the
thief laughed and said, 'How can you claim to know its knowledge? When we
took away your notes you have no knowledge!' Thereafter he gave
instructions to his men to return the sack to me so I thought: Allah caused this
man to guide me in my affairs. When I reached Tus I stayed there for three
years busy in the memorization of everything I had written so that if thieves
should rob me again I would not fear losing my knowledge."
Having done so he accompany Al Juwayni, the Imam of Al Haramayn to the
city of Maysabur, where he surpassed all his contemporaries, mastering the
sciences of Koran, Hadith, jurisprudence, debate, logic, wisdom and
philosophy. It became his practice to write upon each science, and debate
each doctrine to prove the soundness of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad,
praise and peace be upon him. His books were and still are considered to be
the best on their subjects, and extremely well organized due to the capacity of
leader asked, 'What are your notes?' I replied: the books I wrote in this sack. I
left my home to hear, know its knowledge and write it. Upon hearing this the
thief laughed and said, 'How can you claim to know its knowledge? When we
took away your notes you have no knowledge!' Thereafter he gave
instructions to his men to return the sack to me so I thought: Allah caused this
man to guide me in my affairs. When I reached Tus I stayed there for three
years busy in the memorization of everything I had written so that if thieves
should rob me again I would not fear losing my knowledge."
Having done so he accompany Al Juwayni, the Imam of Al Haramayn to the
city of Maysabur, where he surpassed all his contemporaries, mastering the
sciences of Koran, Hadith, jurisprudence, debate, logic, wisdom and
philosophy. It became his practice to write upon each science, and debate
each doctrine to prove the soundness of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad,
praise and peace be upon him. His books were and still are considered to be
the best on their subjects, and extremely well organized due to the capacity of