Hadith 267

(The book) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – From Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahhab, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Zayd Al Sha’rany being from the sons of Ammar Bin Yasser, may Allah-azwj be Pleased with him-ra, said, ‘It is narrated by Abu Al-Qasim Muhammad Bin Al-Qasim Al-Basry, ‘Abu Al-Hassan Hamdawiya Bin Ahmad Bin Tyloun, there had been opened up to him, from the treasures of Egypt, what no one had been Graced with before him. He was tempted to raid the two Pyramid. His trusted ones, and his entourage, and his confidants consulted him that he should not be tempted to demolish the Pyramids, for not one had presented for it, and lived long. He persisted in that and ordered a thousand of his workers to be seeking the door, and they were working for a whole year until they made noise and ran through. When they thought of leaving after the despairing from it and left the work, they found a tunnel. They estimated that it is the door which they had been seeking. When they reached to the end of it, the found slab of alabaster. They estimated that it was the door. They chipped away in it until they uprooted it and extracted it, and there was a writing upon it in Greek. They gathered the wise ones of Egypt and its scholars, but they could not be guided to it; and there was a man among the group known as Abu Abdullah Al-Madainy, one of the memorisers of the world and their scholars. He said to Abu Al-Hassan Hamdawiya Bin Ahmad, ‘I know in a city of Ethiopia of a Bishop who has lived long, and three hundred and sixty years have come upon him. He would know this writing, and he had been determined upon teaching it. The eagerness upon the knowledge of the Arabs would not stand to him while he remains’. Abu Al-Hassan wrote to the king of Ethiopia asking him to carry this Bishop to him. He answered him, ‘This one has been stabbed in the teeth (lost them), and the times have shattered him, and rather this air (weather) is protecting him, and there is fear upon him if he were to be transferred to another air (weather) an